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title: He stepped into the great lofty hall, whose walls and ceilings shone… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He stepped into the great lofty hall, whose walls and ceilings shone with gilding and bright colors and heraldic devices. Who acts: Providence. 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 75

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He stepped into the great lofty hall, whose walls and ceilings shone with gilding and bright colors and heraldic devices.

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**Who acts:** Providence · **What happens:** step, shine · **To what, where:** great lofty hall, walls

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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 (Providence), 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:pg27200:151:75
# text = He stepped into the great lofty hall, whose walls and ceilings shone with gilding and bright colors and heraldic devices.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gilding	gilding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	heraldic	heraldic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | Providence |  |  | the great lofty hall and the great lofty hall and the great lofty hall's walls and ceilings's walls and ceilings |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  | the great lofty hall and the great lofty hall and walls's walls and ceilings's walls and ceilings *not said here* |  |  |  | with gilding and bright colors and heraldic devices | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with gilding=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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