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title: As they passed from hall to hall, beauty everywhere showed itself; a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As they passed from hall to hall, beauty everywhere showed itself; and as the Metal Pig went step by step from one picture to the other, the little boy could see it all plainly. Who acts: walls, beauty, Metal Pig, little boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 29

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As they passed from hall to hall, beauty everywhere showed itself; and as the Metal Pig went step by step from one picture to the other, the little boy could see it all plainly.

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**Who acts:** walls, beauty, Metal Pig, little boy · **What happens:** pass, show, go, see · **To what, where:** hall, beauty, step, one picture

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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: who acts (walls, beauty, Metal Pig, little boy), 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:pg27200:89:29
# text = As they passed from hall to hall, beauty everywhere showed itself; and as the Metal Pig went step by step from one picture to the other, the little boy could see it all plainly.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
11	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	Metal	Metal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
37	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | walls *= wall* |  |  | hall |  | to hall | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hall=Initial\_Location to hall=Destination |
| 2 | **show** | past | beauty | beauty |  |  |  | everywhere *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient |
| 3 | **go** | past | the Metal Pig | step |  | one picture |  | by step; to the other | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from picture=Initial\_Location to other=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | could | the little boy | beauty |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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