--- title: The Star glowed in the roseate air, the Star that shall surely be ex… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Star glowed in the roseate air, the Star that shall surely be extinguished and pass away while the soul still lives on; its trembling beam fell upon the white wall, but it wrote nothing there upon being made perfect in God, nothing of the hope of mercy, of the reliance on the divine love that th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/223/) [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 Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/) / 223 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 223 The Star glowed in the roseate air, the Star that shall surely be extinguished and pass away while the soul still lives on; its trembling beam fell upon the white wall, but it wrote nothing there upon being made perfect in God, nothing of the hope of mercy, of the reliance on the divine love that thrills through the heart of the believer. **Who acts:** Star, soul, trembling beam, God, divine love, mercy · **What happens:** glow, extinguish, pass away, live on, fall, write · **To what, where:** roseate air, Star, white wall, nothing, heart 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, soul, trembling beam, God), 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:pg27200:151:223 # text = The Star glowed in the roseate air, the Star that shall surely be extinguished and pass away while the soul still lives on; its trembling beam fell upon the white wall, but it wrote nothing there upon being made perfect in God, nothing of the hope of mercy, of the reliance on the divine love that thrills through the heart of the believer. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 glowed glow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 roseate roseate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Star Star PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 obj _ _ 12 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 13 surely surely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 extinguished extinguish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 24 on on ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 trembling trembling NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 wrote write VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 38 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 37 obj _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ _ 40 upon upon SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 43 perfect perfect ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 37 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 mercy mercy NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 reliance reliance NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 57 on on ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 divine divine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nmod _ _ 61 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 62 nsubj _ _ 62 thrills thrill VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 60 acl:relcl _ _ 63 through through ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 65 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 66 of of ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 believer believer NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glow** | past | the Star | | | the roseate air | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | | 2 | **extinguish** | shall · passive | | the Star | | | | surely *property* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: that=Patient | | 3 | **pass away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **live on** | present | the soul | | | | still | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** | past | soul's trembling beam | | | the white wall | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon wall=Location | | 6 | **write** | past | soul | nothing | | | | of the reliance on the divine love; nothing *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | | 7 | **make** | gerund · passive | God | | | | | perfect *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **thrill** | present | the divine love | | | the heart of the believer | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **beam** | | soul | | | | | | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **hope** | | mercy | | | | | | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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 222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/222/) - next →: [sentence 224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/224/) - ↑ back to [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/)