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title: Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of the c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of the clouds and the brilliant lights of the aurora borealis. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 13

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Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of the clouds and the brilliant lights of the aurora borealis.

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**What happens:** be, light · **To what, where:** minstrel, north, aurora borealis

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:156:13
# text = Among the strangers was a minstrel from the north, the home of the clouds and the brilliant lights of the aurora borealis.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	aurora	aurora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	borealis	borealis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a minstrel |  | the north |  | among the strangers | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** |  |  | the aurora borealis |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon 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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