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title: In the right aisle of the church every statue on the richly carved s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the right aisle of the church every statue on the richly carved sarcophagi seemed endowed with life. 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 50

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In the right aisle of the church every statue on the richly carved sarcophagi seemed endowed with life.

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**What happens:** carve, endow · **To what, where:** statue, right aisle

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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:pg27200:89:50
# text = In the right aisle of the church every statue on the richly carved sarcophagi seemed endowed with life.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	aisle	aisle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	richly	richly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	sarcophagi	sarcophagus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	endowed	endow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **endow** | past · passive |  | every statue on the richly carved sarcophagi |  | the right aisle of the church |  | with life | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with life=Theme |

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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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