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title: One bell was silent; but it was illuminated by the bright sunshine w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One bell was silent; but it was illuminated by the bright sunshine which streamed from the head and bust of the renowned figure, of which it formed a part. Who acts: One bell, bright sunshine, metal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 74

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One bell was silent; but it was illuminated by the bright sunshine which streamed from the head and bust of the renowned figure, of which it formed a part.

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**Who acts:** One bell, bright sunshine, metal · **What happens:** be, illuminate, stream, form, bust · **To what, where:** metal, head, part, renowned figure

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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 (One bell, bright sunshine, metal), 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:pg27200:129:74
# text = One bell was silent; but it was illuminated by the bright sunshine which streamed from the head and bust of the renowned figure, of which it formed a part.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	streamed	stream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	bust	bust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | One bell |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **illuminate** | past · passive | the bright sunshine | metal |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |
| 3 | **stream** | past | the bright sunshine |  |  | the head and bust of the renowned figure |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from head=Source |
| 4 | **form** | past | metal | a part |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location part=Theme |
| 5 | **bust** |  |  | the renowned figure |  |  |  |  | nom bust «event 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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