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title: A lamp burned on the table, although the weather was mild and warm,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A lamp burned on the table, although the weather was mild and warm, and the long curtains hung down before the open windows, and without the moon shone brightly in the dark-blue sky. Who acts: weather. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, wit
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 2

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A lamp burned on the table, although the weather was mild and warm, and the long curtains hung down before the open windows, and without the moon shone brightly in the dark-blue sky.

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**Who acts:** weather · **What happens:** burn, be, hang down, shine · **To what, where:** lamp, table, long curtains, open windows, blue sky

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weather), 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:pg27200:130:2
# text = A lamp burned on the table, although the weather was mild and warm, and the long curtains hung down before the open windows, and without the moon shone brightly in the dark-blue sky.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
31	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
32	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
35	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | participle · passive |  | a lamp |  | the table |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the weather |  |  |  |  | mild *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the weather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang down** | participle · passive |  | the long curtains |  | the open windows |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before window=Destination |
| 5 | **shine** | past |  |  |  | the blue sky |  | without the moon; brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sky=Location |

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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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