--- title: The sun shone without and warmed the shell, and the rain made it cle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The sun shone without and warmed the shell, and the rain made it clear and transparent; it was mild and agreeable in broad daylight, and dark at night, as it generally is; and the peas as they sat there grew bigger and bigger, and more thoughtful as they mused, for they felt there must be something --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Pea Blossom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/) / 3 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 3 The sun shone without and warmed the shell, and the rain made it clear and transparent; it was mild and agreeable in broad daylight, and dark at night, as it generally is; and the peas as they sat there grew bigger and bigger, and more thoughtful as they mused, for they felt there must be something else for them to do. **Who acts:** sun, rain, shell, peas · **What happens:** shine, warm, make, be, sit, grow · **To what, where:** shell, broad daylight, peas, something This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, rain, shell, peas), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:141:3 # text = The sun shone without and warmed the shell, and the rain made it clear and transparent; it was mild and agreeable in broad daylight, and dark at night, as it generally is; and the peas as they sat there grew bigger and bigger, and more thoughtful as they mused, for they felt there must be something else for them to do. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 without without ADP IN _ 3 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 warmed warm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 transparent transparent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 agreeable agreeable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 generally generally ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 peas pea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ _ 45 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 46 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 45 xcomp _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 52 advmod _ _ 52 thoughtful thoughtful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 parataxis _ _ 53 as as SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 54 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 mused muse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 for for SCONJ IN _ 59 mark _ _ 58 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 59 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 conj _ _ 60 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 59 advmod _ _ 61 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 62 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 63 cop _ _ 63 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 59 obj _ _ 64 else else ADV RB _ 63 advmod _ _ 65 for for SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 66 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 68 mark _ _ 68 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 63 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | past | the sun | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **warm** | past | the sun *not said here* | the shell | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | | 3 | **make** | past | the rain | shell | | | | clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **is** | past | shell | | | broad daylight | | mild *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | shell *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **be** | | shell *not said here* | | | | night | | tree rules | | 7 | **be** | present | shell | | | | | generally *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **sit** | past | peas *= pea* | the peas *not said here* | | there | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pea=Theme | | 9 | **grow** | past | the peas | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **muse** | past | peas *= pea* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 11 | **feel** | past | peas *= pea* | | | there | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 12 | **is a** | must | | something | | | | else *property* | tree rules | | 13 | **do** | to-infinitive | peas *= pea* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/4/) - ↑ back to [The Pea Blossom](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/141/)