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title: Lately a gleaming star fell in the southwest, as a tribute of thanks… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Lately a gleaming star fell in the southwest, as a tribute of thanksgiving to many--many! ' Who acts: gleaming star. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Visit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Visit, sentence 48

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Lately a gleaming star fell in the southwest, as a tribute of thanksgiving to many--many! '

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**Who acts:** gleaming star · **What happens:** gleam, fall · **To what, where:** southwest

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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 (gleaming star), 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:pg27200:136:48
# text = Lately a gleaming star fell in the southwest, as a tribute of thanksgiving to many--many! '
1	Lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	southwest	southwest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thanksgiving	thanksgiving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a gleaming star |  |  | the southwest |  | as a tribute of thanksgiving; to many; lately *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in southwest=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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