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title: The Star beheld all this from the pink morning sky, and its beam tre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Star beheld all this from the pink morning sky, and its beam trembled upon two great tears upon the pale feverish cheeks of the young man; and soon it was said that he was sick unto death, and he lay stretched upon a bed of pain. Who acts: Star, beam, Such, sky. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Han
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 168

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The Star beheld all this from the pink morning sky, and its beam trembled upon two great tears upon the pale feverish cheeks of the young man; and soon it was said that he was sick unto death, and he lay stretched upon a bed of pain.

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**Who acts:** Star, beam, Such, sky · **What happens:** behold, tremble, say, be, stretch, beam · **To what, where:** this, pink morning sky, two great tears, cheek, Such · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Star, beam, Such, sky), 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:pg27200:151:168
# text = The Star beheld all this from the pink morning sky, and its beam trembled upon two great tears upon the pale feverish cheeks of the young man; and soon it was said that he was sick unto death, and he lay stretched upon a bed of pain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	feverish	feverish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	ccomp	_	_
39	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj:pass	_	_
44	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
46	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past | the Star | this |  | the pink morning sky |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tremble** | participle | sky's beam |  |  | two great tears upon the pale feverish cheeks of the young man |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tear=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | cheek |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is** | past | Such |  |  |  |  | unto death; sick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **stretch** | past · passive |  | Such |  |  |  | upon a bed of pain | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **beam** |  | sky |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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