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title: The bright color has been changed by age to dark green; but clear, f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bright color has been changed by age to dark green; but clear, fresh water pours from the snout, which shines as if it had been polished, and so indeed it has, for hundreds of poor people and children seize it in their hands as they place their mouths close to the mouth of the animal, to drink. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 3

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The bright color has been changed by age to dark green; but clear, fresh water pours from the snout, which shines as if it had been polished, and so indeed it has, for hundreds of poor people and children seize it in their hands as they place their mouths close to the mouth of the animal, to drink.

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**Who acts:** age, clear fresh water, snout, water, hundreds · **What happens:** change, pour, shine, polish, have, seize · **To what, where:** bright color, snout, water, hands

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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 (age, clear fresh water, snout, water), 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:pg27200:89:3
# text = The bright color has been changed by age to dark green; but clear, fresh water pours from the snout, which shines as if it had been polished, and so indeed it has, for hundreds of poor people and children seize it in their hands as they place their mouths close to the mouth of the animal, to drink.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pours	pour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	conj	_	_
45	seize	seize	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
53	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	_
55	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present · perfect · passive | age | the bright color |  |  |  | to dark green | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **pour** | present | clear fresh water |  |  | the snout |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from snout=Source |
| 3 | **shine** | present | the snout |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **polish** | past · perfect · passive |  | water |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 5 | **have** | present | water |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **seize** | present | hundreds of poor people and children | water |  | hundreds's hands |  | as place and hundreds's mouths | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **drink** | to-infinitive | hundreds of poor people and children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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