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title: A sparkling lizard moved about in the skull, gliding in and out thro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A sparkling lizard moved about in the skull, gliding in and out through the sightless holes. Who acts: sparkling lizard. 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 240

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A sparkling lizard moved about in the skull, gliding in and out through the sightless holes.

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**Who acts:** sparkling lizard · **What happens:** move about, glide · **To what, where:** skull, sightless holes

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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 (sparkling lizard), 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:pg27200:151:240
# text = A sparkling lizard moved about in the skull, gliding in and out through the sightless holes.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sparkling	sparkling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sightless	sightless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	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 | **move about** | past | a sparkling lizard |  |  | the skull |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in skull=Trajectory |
| 2 | **glide** | gerund | a sparkling lizard *not said here* |  |  | the sightless holes |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hole=Trajectory |

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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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