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title: They laid the bleeding youth upon the throne of France, wrapped the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They laid the bleeding youth upon the throne of France, wrapped the velvet around his wounds, and his blood streamed forth upon the imperial purple. Who acts: thrusts, blood, velvet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 24

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They laid the bleeding youth upon the throne of France, wrapped the velvet around his wounds, and his blood streamed forth upon the imperial purple.

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**Who acts:** thrusts, blood, velvet · **What happens:** lay, wrap, stream, wound · **To what, where:** bleeding youth, throne, velvet, wounds, imperial purple

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thrusts, blood, velvet), 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:pg27200:96:24
# text = They laid the bleeding youth upon the throne of France, wrapped the velvet around his wounds, and his blood streamed forth upon the imperial purple.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | thrusts *= thrust* | the bleeding youth |  | the throne of France |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme upon throne=Destination |
| 2 | **wrap** | past | thrusts *= thrust* *not said here* | the velvet |  | velvet's wounds |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent velvet=Theme around wound=Destination |
| 3 | **stream** | participle | velvet's blood |  |  | the imperial purple |  | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon purple=Location |
| 4 | **wound** |  | velvet |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=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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