--- title: The stars twinkled; and the new moon, in the form of a crescent, was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The stars twinkled; and the new moon, in the form of a crescent, was surrounded by the shadowy disc of the whole moon, and looked like a gray globe with a golden rim: it was a beautiful sight for those who had good eyes. Who acts: stars, shadowy disc, light. 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C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stars, shadowy disc, light), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:13:108 # text = The stars twinkled; and the new moon, in the form of a crescent, was surrounded by the shadowy disc of the whole moon, and looked like a gray globe with a golden rim: it was a beautiful sight for those who had good eyes. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 twinkled twinkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 crescent crescent NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 shadowy shadowy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 disc disc NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 gray gray NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 globe globe NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 rim rim NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 44 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 43 nmod _ _ 46 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 47 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 48 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **twinkle** | past | the stars | the new moon | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **surround** | past · passive | the shadowy disc of the whole moon | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | the stars *not said here* | | | | | like a gray globe with a golden rim | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is a** | past | light | a beautiful sight | | | | for those | tree rules | | 5 | **have** | past | | good eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 6 | **form** | | | a crescent | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/109/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)