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title: The monument is unadorned, but the red ladder is an emblem of art, s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The monument is unadorned, but the red ladder is an emblem of art, signifying that the way to glory leads up a shining ladder, on which the prophets of mind rise to heaven, like Elias of old. Who acts: monument, red ladder, way, prophets. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 49

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The monument is unadorned, but the red ladder is an emblem of art, signifying that the way to glory leads up a shining ladder, on which the prophets of mind rise to heaven, like Elias of old.

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**Who acts:** monument, red ladder, way, prophets · **What happens:** be, signify, glory, lead up, shine, rise · **To what, where:** emblem, shining ladder

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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 (monument, red ladder, way, prophets), 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:pg27200:89:49
# text = The monument is unadorned, but the red ladder is an emblem of art, signifying that the way to glory leads up a shining ladder, on which the prophets of mind rise to heaven, like Elias of old.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monument	monument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	unadorned	unadorned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	emblem	emblem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	signifying	signify	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	glory	glory	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
22	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	prophets	prophet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	rise	rise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	like	like	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Elias	Elias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the monument |  |  |  |  | unadorned *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the red ladder | a emblem |  |  |  | of art | tree rules |
| 3 | **signify** | gerund | the monument *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glory** | to-infinitive | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **lead up** | present | the way | a shining ladder |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **rise** | present | the prophets of mind |  |  |  |  | to heaven; like Elias of old | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |

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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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