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title: High towers rose from the castle of the king, and the brightness of… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: High towers rose from the castle of the king, and the brightness of many candles streamed from all the windows; within was dance and song, and King Waldemar and the young, richly-attired maids of honor danced together. Who acts: High towers. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 32

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High towers rose from the castle of the king, and the brightness of many candles streamed from all the windows; within was dance and song, and King Waldemar and the young, richly-attired maids of honor danced together.

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**Who acts:** High towers · **What happens:** rise, stream, be, attire, dance · **To what, where:** brightness, castle, many candles, windows, honor

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High towers), 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:pg1597:25:32
# text = High towers rose from the castle of the king, and the brightness of many candles streamed from all the windows; within was dance and song, and King Waldemar and the young, richly-attired maids of honor danced together.
1	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	within	within	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Waldemar	Waldemar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
34	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
36	richly	richly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
39	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	danced	dance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
43	together	together	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | High towers | the brightness of many candles |  | the castle of the king |  | King Waldemar and the young attired maids of honor *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from castle=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stream** | participle |  | many candles *not said here* |  | all windows |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from window=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | within dance and song | tree rules |
| 4 | **attire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dance** | participle |  | honor *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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