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title: "I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks. Who acts: Moon, beams, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 1

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"I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks.

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**Who acts:** Moon, beams, my · **What happens:** look down, say, cause, throw, beam · **To what, where:** dark pines, long shadows, rocks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moon, beams, 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:pg27200:113:1
# text = "I looked down upon Tyrol," said the Moon, "and my beams caused the dark pines to throw long shadows upon the rocks.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Tyrol	Tyrol	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** *in a quote* | past | the Moon *= moon* |  |  |  |  | upon Tyrol; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon tyrol=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cause** *in a quote* | past | my beams | the dark pines |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pine=Patient |
| 4 | **throw** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | my beams *not said here* | long shadows |  | the rocks |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme upon rock=Destination |
| 5 | **beam** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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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