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title: The bright Star gleamed unaltered, radiant and large, as it had glea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bright Star gleamed unaltered, radiant and large, as it had gleamed for thousands of years, and the air glowed red with tints fresh as roses, crimson like blood. Who acts: bright Star, air. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 244

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The bright Star gleamed unaltered, radiant and large, as it had gleamed for thousands of years, and the air glowed red with tints fresh as roses, crimson like blood.

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**Who acts:** bright Star, air · **What happens:** gleam, glow · **To what, where:** lizard

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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 (bright Star, air), 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:pg27200:151:244
# text = The bright Star gleamed unaltered, radiant and large, as it had gleamed for thousands of years, and the air glowed red with tints fresh as roses, crimson like blood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	unaltered	unaltered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tints	tint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	crimson	crimson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | past | the bright Star |  |  |  |  | unaltered *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **gleam** | past · perfect · passive |  | lizard |  |  |  | for thousands of years | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **glow** | past | the air |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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