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title: She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines. — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines. Who acts: sleep. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 108

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She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines.

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**Who acts:** sleep · **What happens:** stand, shine · **To what, where:** balcony

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep), 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:pg1597:23:108
# text = She stood on the balcony and shone as the Aurora Borealis shines.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Aurora	Aurora	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Borealis	Borealis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	shines	shine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | sleep |  |  | the balcony |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | participle | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the Borealis shines | 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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