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title: The light of the flames fell directly on the face and breast of the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The light of the flames fell directly on the face and breast of the Snow Man with a ruddy gleam. " Who acts: light. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 93

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The light of the flames fell directly on the face and breast of the Snow Man with a ruddy gleam. "

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**Who acts:** light · **What happens:** fall, light · **To what, where:** face, flames

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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 (light), 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:pg27200:169:93
# text = The light of the flames fell directly on the face and breast of the Snow Man with a ruddy gleam. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the light of the flames |  |  | the face and breast of the Snow Man |  | with a ruddy gleam; directly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location |
| 2 | **light** |  |  | the flames |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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