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title: The sun shone with considerable heat, and it was wonderful to behold… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun shone with considerable heat, and it was wonderful to behold how in the far distance something like smoke seemed to be rising; yet this smoke was clearer than the air; it was transparent, and looked like rays of light rolling and dancing afar over the heath. Who acts: sun, something, smoke. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 73

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The sun shone with considerable heat, and it was wonderful to behold how in the far distance something like smoke seemed to be rising; yet this smoke was clearer than the air; it was transparent, and looked like rays of light rolling and dancing afar over the heath.

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**Who acts:** sun, something, smoke · **What happens:** shine, be, behold, seem, rise, look · **To what, where:** sun, afar, heath, light

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, something, smoke), 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:pg27200:159:73
# text = The sun shone with considerable heat, and it was wonderful to behold how in the far distance something like smoke seemed to be rising; yet this smoke was clearer than the air; it was transparent, and looked like rays of light rolling and dancing afar over the heath.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	transparent	transparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	conj	_	_
49	afar	afar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	over	over	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | participle |  | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  | with considerable heat | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with heat=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | to-infinitive | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past | something |  |  |  |  | in the far distance | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **rise** | to-infinitive · progressive | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | this smoke |  |  |  |  | than the air; clear *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | smoke |  |  |  |  | transparent *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **look** | past | smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like rays of light | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **roll** | gerund | smoke *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **dance** | gerund | smoke *not said here* | afar |  | the heath |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme afar=Destination over heath=Trajectory |
| 11 | **ray** |  |  | light |  |  |  |  | nom ray «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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