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title: The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts of colors. Who acts: windows, glass, sunlight. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 40

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The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts of colors.

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**Who acts:** windows, glass, sunlight · **What happens:** be, shine, sort · **To what, where:** sorts, colors

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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 (windows, glass, sunlight), 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:pg1597:12:40
# text = The windows were very high up; the glass was red, blue, and green, and the sunlight shone through quite wondrously in all sorts of colors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	wondrously	wondrously	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the windows |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the glass |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the glass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shine** | participle | the sunlight |  |  | all sorts of colors |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wondrously=Location |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | colors |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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