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title: The light streamed forth from thousands of lamps, and the rockets sh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The light streamed forth from thousands of lamps, and the rockets shot upwards towards the sky, filling the air with showers of colored fiery sparks. Who acts: light. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 47

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The light streamed forth from thousands of lamps, and the rockets shot upwards towards the sky, filling the air with showers of colored fiery sparks.

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**Who acts:** light · **What happens:** stream, shoot, fill, color · **To what, where:** light, thousands, sky, air

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light), 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:pg27200:129:47
# text = The light streamed forth from thousands of lamps, and the rockets shot upwards towards the sky, filling the air with showers of colored fiery sparks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	streamed	stream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	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	rockets	rocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	upwards	upwards	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
26	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stream** | participle |  | the light *not said here* |  | thousands of lamps |  | forth *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from thousand=Source |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | the light |  |  | the sky |  | upwards *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent towards sky=Destination |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | the light *not said here* | the air |  |  |  | with showers of colored fiery sparks | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with shower=Instrument |
| 4 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=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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