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title: The saloons were gleaming with lustres--privy councillors and excell… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The saloons were gleaming with lustres--privy councillors and excellencies were walking about barefooted, and wore gold keys; it was enough to make any one feel uncomfortable. Who acts: saloons, guard, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3, with its de
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 3, sentence 52

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The saloons were gleaming with lustres--privy councillors and excellencies were walking about barefooted, and wore gold keys; it was enough to make any one feel uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** saloons, guard, one · **What happens:** gleam, walk, wear, be, make, feel · **To what, where:** gold keys, one

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saloons, guard, one), 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:pg1597:13:52
# text = The saloons were gleaming with lustres--privy councillors and excellencies were walking about barefooted, and wore gold keys; it was enough to make any one feel uncomfortable.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saloons	saloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	lustres	lustre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	privy	privy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	councillors	councillor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	excellencies	excellency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	barefooted	barefooted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | past · progressive | the saloons |  |  |  |  | with lustres and privy councillors and excellencies | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lustre=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | the saloons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about barefooted | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about barefooted=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wear** | past |  | gold keys |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent key=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | guard |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | guard *not said here* | any one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | any one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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