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title: Then suddenly it appeared as if all the stars were shining with the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly it appeared as if all the stars were shining with the radiance of the full moon on the many-colored flowers that decked the grave. Who acts: it, stars, colored flowers, full moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 41

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Then suddenly it appeared as if all the stars were shining with the radiance of the full moon on the many-colored flowers that decked the grave.

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**Who acts:** it, stars, colored flowers, full moon · **What happens:** appear, shine, color, deck, radiate · **To what, where:** colored flowers, grave

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, stars, colored flowers, full moon), 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:pg27200:17:41
# text = Then suddenly it appeared as if all the stars were shining with the radiance of the full moon on the many-colored flowers that decked the grave.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	decked	deck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | it |  |  |  | then | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past · progressive | all stars |  |  | the colored flowers |  | with the radiance of the full moon | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flower=Location |
| 3 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **deck** | past | the colored flowers | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grave=Destination |
| 5 | **radiate** |  | the full moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom radiance «phenomenon 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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