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title: Proudly and boldly he looked up, while the lightning flashed across… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Proudly and boldly he looked up, while the lightning flashed across the sky as if the whole world were in flames. Who acts: sight, lightning. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 27

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Proudly and boldly he looked up, while the lightning flashed across the sky as if the whole world were in flames.

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**Who acts:** sight, lightning · **What happens:** look up, flash, be · **To what, where:** lightning, sky, flames

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, lightning), 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:pg27200:14:27
# text = Proudly and boldly he looked up, while the lightning flashed across the sky as if the whole world were in flames.
1	Proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	boldly	boldly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
11	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	across	across	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | past | sight |  |  |  |  | boldly, proudly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **flash** | participle |  | the lightning *not said here* |  | the sky |  | as the whole world | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the lightning |  |  | flames |  |  | tree rules |

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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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