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title: The bright Morning Star in the roseate air threw its glancing ray do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bright Morning Star in the roseate air threw its glancing ray downward upon the Psyche, and upon the radiant countenances of the admiring spectators, who here beheld the image of the soul portrayed in marble. Who acts: bright Morning Star, admiring spectators, life. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 256

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The bright Morning Star in the roseate air threw its glancing ray downward upon the Psyche, and upon the radiant countenances of the admiring spectators, who here beheld the image of the soul portrayed in marble.

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**Who acts:** bright Morning Star, admiring spectators, life · **What happens:** throw, admire, behold, portray, ray, image · **To what, where:** glancing ray, roseate air, image, soul, marble

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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 Morning Star, admiring spectators, life), 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:pg27200:151:256
# text = The bright Morning Star in the roseate air threw its glancing ray downward upon the Psyche, and upon the radiant countenances of the admiring spectators, who here beheld the image of the soul portrayed in marble.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Morning	Morning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	roseate	roseate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	glancing	glancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Psyche	psyche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	countenances	countenance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	portrayed	portray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the bright Morning Star | life's glancing ray |  | the roseate air |  | upon the Psyche; upon the radiant countenances of the admiring spectators; downward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ray=Theme in air=Destination |
| 2 | **admire** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **behold** | past | the admiring spectators | the image of the soul |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer image=Stimulus |
| 4 | **portray** | participle |  | the soul *not said here* |  | marble |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ray** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **image** |  |  | the soul |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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