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title: The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and clo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays. Who acts: beams, fresh yellow flowers. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 123

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The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays.

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**Who acts:** beams, fresh yellow flowers · **What happens:** glide, grow, shine · **To what, where:** white walls, warm sun rays

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, fresh yellow flowers), 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:pg1597:12:123
# text = The beams glided down the white walls of a neighbor's house, and close by the fresh yellow flowers were growing, shining like gold in the warm sun-rays.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glide** | past | the beams |  |  | the white walls of a neighbor's house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down wall=Trajectory |
| 2 | **grow** | past · progressive | the fresh yellow flowers |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | the fresh yellow flowers *not said here* |  |  | the warm sun rays |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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