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title: Brightness, splendor, light and flowers, wealth and taste appeared a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Brightness, splendor, light and flowers, wealth and taste appeared at the ball; there was so much to see, that the beautiful hands of Madame Rubens made no sensation at all. Who acts: Brightness, beautiful hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 73

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Brightness, splendor, light and flowers, wealth and taste appeared at the ball; there was so much to see, that the beautiful hands of Madame Rubens made no sensation at all.

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**Who acts:** Brightness, beautiful hands · **What happens:** appear, be, see, make · **To what, where:** ball, sensation, all

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brightness, beautiful hands), 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:pg27200:148:73
# text = Brightness, splendor, light and flowers, wealth and taste appeared at the ball; there was so much to see, that the beautiful hands of Madame Rubens made no sensation at all.
1	Brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	taste	taste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	Rubens	Rubens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	sensation	sensation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Brightness and splendor and light and flowers and wealth and taste |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ball=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | Brightness and splendor and light and flowers and wealth and taste *not said here* |  |  |  |  | much *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | past | the beautiful hands of Madame | no sensation |  | all |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sensation=Product |

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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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