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title: And where the sun shone, how everything glittered and sparkled, as i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And where the sun shone, how everything glittered and sparkled, as if diamond dust had been strewn about; while the snowy carpet of the earth appeared as if covered with diamonds, from which countless lights gleamed, whiter than even the snow itself. Who acts: sun, everything, diamond dust, snowy ca
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 35

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And where the sun shone, how everything glittered and sparkled, as if diamond dust had been strewn about; while the snowy carpet of the earth appeared as if covered with diamonds, from which countless lights gleamed, whiter than even the snow itself.

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**Who acts:** sun, everything, diamond dust, snowy carpet, countless lights · **What happens:** shine, glitter, sparkle, be, appear, cover

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, everything, diamond dust, snowy carpet), 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:pg27200:169:35
# text = And where the sun shone, how everything glittered and sparkled, as if diamond dust had been strewn about; while the snowy carpet of the earth appeared as if covered with diamonds, from which countless lights gleamed, whiter than even the snow itself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
9	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	_
19	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
38	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
40	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	conj	_	_
43	than	than	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	46	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **glitter** | past | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sparkle** | past | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | diamond dust |  |  |  |  | strewn *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **appear** | past | the snowy carpet of the earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | participle | the snowy carpet of the earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme |
| 7 | **gleam** | past | countless lights |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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