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title: The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the pow… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent! Who acts: powerful Aurora, all. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 13

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The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent!

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**Who acts:** powerful Aurora, all · **What happens:** be, light up · **To what, where:** largest many miles, extent

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful Aurora, all), 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:pg1597:15:13
# text = The largest was many miles in extent; all were lighted up by the powerful Aurora Borealis, and all were so large, so empty, so icy cold, and so resplendent!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	_
17	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the largest many miles |  | extent |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **light up** | past · passive | the powerful Aurora | the largest many miles |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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