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title: The sun still threw its rays upon the tree, and the refreshing dew f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun still threw its rays upon the tree, and the refreshing dew fell upon it as of old; and it was so overloaded with fruit that the branches bent towards the earth with the weight. " Who acts: sun, refreshing dew. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 165

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The sun still threw its rays upon the tree, and the refreshing dew fell upon it as of old; and it was so overloaded with fruit that the branches bent towards the earth with the weight. "

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**Who acts:** sun, refreshing dew · **What happens:** throw, refresh, fall, overload, bend, ray · **To what, where:** rays, tree, sun, dew, branches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, refreshing dew), 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:pg27200:128:165
# text = The sun still threw its rays upon the tree, and the refreshing dew fell upon it as of old; and it was so overloaded with fruit that the branches bent towards the earth with the weight. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	refreshing	refresh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	overloaded	overload	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
33	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the sun | sun's rays |  | the tree | still |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ray=Theme upon tree=Destination |
| 2 | **refresh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the refreshing dew |  |  | sun |  | as old | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |
| 4 | **overload** | past · passive |  | dew |  |  |  | with fruit | vn spray-9.7 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fruit=Theme |
| 5 | **bend** | participle · passive |  | the branches |  |  |  | towards the earth with the weight | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |
| 6 | **ray** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «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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