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title: And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shin… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors. Who acts: sea. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 65

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And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors.

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**Who acts:** sea · **What happens:** meet, stand, shine, melt, glow · **To what, where:** sun, glowing colors

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea), 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:pg1597:18:65
# text = And yonder, where sea and sky meet, stood the sun, like a large shining altar, all melted together in the most glowing colors.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
18	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
27	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | present | sea and sky |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | the sun |  |  |  | like a large shining altar | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **melt** | participle |  |  |  | the glowing colors |  | all, together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **glow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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