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title: "On this evening, as usual, stillness reigned around; and in the ful… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "On this evening, as usual, stillness reigned around; and in the full beam of my light came the little granddaughter. Who acts: evening, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 9

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"On this evening, as usual, stillness reigned around; and in the full beam of my light came the little granddaughter.

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**Who acts:** evening, my · **What happens:** reign around, come, beam, light · **To what, where:** stillness, little granddaughter, light

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, my), 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:pg27200:110:9
# text = "On this evening, as usual, stillness reigned around; and in the full beam of my light came the little granddaughter.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	stillness	stillness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign around** *in a quote* | participle |  | stillness *not said here* |  |  |  | around *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | past | this evening and the full beam of my light | the little granddaughter |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location granddaughter=Theme |
| 3 | **beam** *in a quote* |  |  | my light |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **light** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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