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title: And the sun shone so clearly, and straight before her stood the ange… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the sun shone so clearly, and straight before her stood the angel of God in white garments, the same she had seen that night at the church door; but he no longer carried the sharp sword, but in its stead a splendid green spray, full of roses. Who acts: sun, family, God. A sentence of «Andersen's
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 92

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And the sun shone so clearly, and straight before her stood the angel of God in white garments, the same she had seen that night at the church door; but he no longer carried the sharp sword, but in its stead a splendid green spray, full of roses.

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**Who acts:** sun, family, God · **What happens:** shine, stand, see, carry · **To what, where:** angel, white garments, same, church door, sharp sword, stead

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, family, God), 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:pg1597:27:92
# text = And the sun shone so clearly, and straight before her stood the angel of God in white garments, the same she had seen that night at the church door; but he no longer carried the sharp sword, but in its stead a splendid green spray, full of roses.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
26	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
33	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	no	no	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	stead	stead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | family | the angel of God |  | white garments |  | straight *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in garment=Destination |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the same |  | the church door | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **carry** | past | God | the sharp sword |  | sun's stead |  | long *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Value in stead=Location |

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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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