--- title: It was to him as if light streamed from her, and dazzled his eyes; b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It was to him as if light streamed from her, and dazzled his eyes; but then he had only just opened them, as he awoke from his sleep. Who acts: maiden, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, wind), 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:pg27200:165:24 # text = It was to him as if light streamed from her, and dazzled his eyes; but then he had only just opened them, as he awoke from his sleep. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj:outer _ _ 5 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 7 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 streamed stream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 dazzled dazzle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 only only ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 just just ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | maiden | | | | | to wind; as light | tree rules | | 2 | **stream** | participle | | light *not said here* | | | | from foreigner | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from she=Source | | 3 | **dazzle** | past | wind | wind's eyes | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | | 4 | **have** | past | wind | | | | then | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **open** | past | wind *not said here* | eyes *= eye* | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 6 | **awake** | past | wind | | | wind's sleep | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sleep** | | wind | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/25/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/165/)