--- title: But Jurgen was in the temple of God, and while the darkness of night… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But Jurgen was in the temple of God, and while the darkness of night reigned outside, a light arose in his soul that was never to depart from it; the heavy weight that pressed on his brain burst asunder. Who acts: Jurgen, God, light, heavy weight. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jurgen, God, light, heavy weight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:163:2 # text = But Jurgen was in the temple of God, and while the darkness of night reigned outside, a light arose in his soul that was never to depart from it; the heavy weight that pressed on his brain burst asunder. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 Jurgen Jurgen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 temple temple NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 11 while while SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 reigned reign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl:relcl _ _ 17 outside outside ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 obj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 27 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 depart depart VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl:relcl _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 pressed press VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 on on SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 42 asunder asunder NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Jurgen | | | the temple | | of God | tree rules | | 2 | **reign** | participle · passive | God *not said here* | the darkness of night | | | | outside *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **arise** | past | a light | | | light's soul | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soul=Location | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | a light *not said here* | | | darkness | | depart *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **press** | past | the heavy weight | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **burst** | past | light's brain | asunder | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/163/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/163/3/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/163/)