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title: And the sun shone without, while within the censers were waved and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the sun shone without, while within the censers were waved and the Mass was celebrated. Who acts: sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 234

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And the sun shone without, while within the censers were waved and the Mass was celebrated.

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** shine, wave, celebrate · **To what, where:** censers, Mass

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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 (sun), 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:pg27200:151:234
# text = And the sun shone without, while within the censers were waved and the Mass was celebrated.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	censers	censer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Mass	Mass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 | **wave** | past · passive |  | the censers |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | the Mass |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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