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title: She flashed upon me from the balcony like the radiant aurora boreali… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She flashed upon me from the balcony like the radiant aurora borealis, surrounded with flowers like flames of fire. Who acts: sleep, fire. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 97

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She flashed upon me from the balcony like the radiant aurora borealis, surrounded with flowers like flames of fire.

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**Who acts:** sleep, fire · **What happens:** flash, surround, flame · **To what, where:** balcony

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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 (sleep, fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:11272`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:165:97
# text = She flashed upon me from the balcony like the radiant aurora borealis, surrounded with flowers like flames of fire.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	aurora	aurora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	borealis	borealis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **flash** | past | sleep |  |  | the balcony |  | upon me; like the radiant aurora borealis | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon i=Location |
| 2 | **surround** | participle | sleep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with flowers like flames of fire | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme |
| 3 | **flame** |  | fire |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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