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title: The fruit glittered like gold, and there were cakes so full of plums… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fruit glittered like gold, and there were cakes so full of plums that they were nearly bursting. Who acts: fruit, plums. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 15

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The fruit glittered like gold, and there were cakes so full of plums that they were nearly bursting.

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**Who acts:** fruit, plums · **What happens:** glitter, be, burst · **To what, where:** fruit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, plums), 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:pg27200:134:15
# text = The fruit glittered like gold, and there were cakes so full of plums that they were nearly bursting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	cakes	cake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | participle |  | the fruit *not said here* |  |  |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the fruit |  |  |  |  | of plums; full *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burst** | past · progressive | plums |  |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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