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title: But she was gone--the brightness had disappeared; the flowers no lon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was gone--the brightness had disappeared; the flowers no longer appeared like flames, although still as beautiful as ever. Who acts: foreigner, brightness, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 26

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But she was gone--the brightness had disappeared; the flowers no longer appeared like flames, although still as beautiful as ever.

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**Who acts:** foreigner, brightness, flowers · **What happens:** be, disappear, appear

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigner, brightness, flowers), 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:pg27200:165:26
# text = But she was gone--the brightness had disappeared; the flowers no longer appeared like flames, although still as beautiful as ever.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | foreigner |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disappear** | past · perfect | the brightness |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  | like flames; long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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