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title: Then three or four beautiful falling stars came down, which cleared… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then three or four beautiful falling stars came down, which cleared the air, and gave my thoughts another direction. Who acts: three beautiful falling stars, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 41

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Then three or four beautiful falling stars came down, which cleared the air, and gave my thoughts another direction.

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**Who acts:** three beautiful falling stars, my · **What happens:** fall, come down, clear, give, think · **To what, where:** air, thoughts

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three beautiful falling stars, my), 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:pg27200:136:41
# text = Then three or four beautiful falling stars came down, which cleared the air, and gave my thoughts another direction.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	amod	_	_
7	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come down** | past | three beautiful falling stars |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **clear** | past |  | the air |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent air=Source |
| 4 | **give** | past | three beautiful falling stars *not said here* | my thoughts |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thought=Recipient direction=Theme |
| 5 | **think** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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