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title: The great yellow citrons hung down among the dark shining leaves, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The great yellow citrons hung down among the dark shining leaves, and covered a part of the old reddish-yellow walls. Who acts: dark, great yellow citrons. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 117

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The great yellow citrons hung down among the dark shining leaves, and covered a part of the old reddish-yellow walls.

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**Who acts:** dark, great yellow citrons · **What happens:** hang down, shine, cover · **To what, where:** great yellow citrons, dark, leaves, part

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark, great yellow citrons), 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:pg27200:151:117
# text = The great yellow citrons hung down among the dark shining leaves, and covered a part of the old reddish-yellow walls.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	citrons	citron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	reddish	reddish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang down** | participle |  | the great yellow citrons *not said here* |  | the dark |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among dark=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | the dark *not said here* | leaves |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | past | the great yellow citrons | a part of the old yellow walls |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Destination |

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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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