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title: Here stood the figure of a beautiful woman, as beautifully sculpture… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here stood the figure of a beautiful woman, as beautifully sculptured as possible by one of the great masters. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 24

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Here stood the figure of a beautiful woman, as beautifully sculptured as possible by one of the great masters.

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**What happens:** stand, sculpture, figure · **To what, where:** figure, beautiful woman

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:89:24
# text = Here stood the figure of a beautiful woman, as beautifully sculptured as possible by one of the great masters.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sculptured	sculpture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the figure of a beautiful woman |  | here |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer figure=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sculpture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by one of the great masters; beautifully, possible *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **figure** |  |  | a beautiful woman |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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