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title: And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star. Who acts: God, ceiling. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 93

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And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.

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**Who acts:** God, ceiling · **What happens:** touch, rise, gleam · **To what, where:** ceiling, golden star

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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 (God, ceiling), 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:pg1597:27:93
# text = And he touched the ceiling with the spray, and the ceiling rose so high, and where he had touched it there gleamed a golden star.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | God | the ceiling |  |  |  | with the spray | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent ceiling=Experiencer with spray=Instrument |
| 2 | **rise** | past | the ceiling |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **touch** | past · perfect | God | ceiling |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **gleam** | past | God *not said here* | a golden star |  | there |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=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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