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title: At every step his cheeks glowed, and the blood rushed wildly through… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At every step his cheeks glowed, and the blood rushed wildly through his veins. " Who acts: cheeks, blood. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 231

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At every step his cheeks glowed, and the blood rushed wildly through his veins. "

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**Who acts:** cheeks, blood · **What happens:** glow, rush · **To what, where:** veins

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cheeks, blood), 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:pg27200:140:231
# text = At every step his cheeks glowed, and the blood rushed wildly through his veins. "
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | prince's cheeks |  |  |  |  | at every step | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at step=Location |
| 2 | **rush** | past | the blood |  |  | prince's veins |  | wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through vein=Trajectory |

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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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