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title: The lamp burned through the whole evening, and began to perceive too… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lamp burned through the whole evening, and began to perceive too clearly that the gift of the stars would remain a hidden treasure all his life. Who acts: lamp, gift. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 108

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The lamp burned through the whole evening, and began to perceive too clearly that the gift of the stars would remain a hidden treasure all his life.

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**Who acts:** lamp, gift · **What happens:** burn, begin, perceive, remain, gift · **To what, where:** hidden treasure, stars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lamp, gift), 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:pg27200:133:108
# text = The lamp burned through the whole evening, and began to perceive too clearly that the gift of the stars would remain a hidden treasure all his life.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past | the lamp |  |  |  | evening |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **perceive** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **remain** | would | the gift of the stars | a hidden treasure |  |  |  | gift's life *obl:unmarked* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treasure=Attribute |
| 5 | **gift** |  |  | the stars |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession 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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