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title: The air was transparent and blue, and black Vesuvius formed the back… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The air was transparent and blue, and black Vesuvius formed the background, with fire ever shooting forth from it, like the stem of the pine tree. Who acts: air, black Vesuvius, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eleventh Evening, sentence 8

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The air was transparent and blue, and black Vesuvius formed the background, with fire ever shooting forth from it, like the stem of the pine tree.

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**Who acts:** air, black Vesuvius, fire · **What happens:** be, form, shoot, stem · **To what, where:** background, air, pine tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eleventh Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, black Vesuvius, fire), 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:pg27200:102:8
# text = The air was transparent and blue, and black Vesuvius formed the background, with fire ever shooting forth from it, like the stem of the pine tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Vesuvius	Vesuvius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	background	background	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
18	shooting	shoot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
19	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the air |  |  |  |  | transparent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the air *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **form** | past | black Vesuvius | the background |  |  |  | with fire | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location background=Theme |
| 4 | **shoot** | gerund | fire *not said here* |  |  | air |  | like the stem of the pine tree; forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **stem** |  |  | the pine tree |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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