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title: Then the cloak was removed, and she found herself in a large hall, o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the cloak was removed, and she found herself in a large hall, of wide-spreading dimensions, in which there was a subdued light, like twilight, reigning, and in a moment her child appeared before her, smiling, and more beautiful than ever; with a silent cry she pressed him to her heart. Who acts
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 45

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Then the cloak was removed, and she found herself in a large hall, of wide-spreading dimensions, in which there was a subdued light, like twilight, reigning, and in a moment her child appeared before her, smiling, and more beautiful than ever; with a silent cry she pressed him to her heart.

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**Who acts:** spectre, child · **What happens:** remove, find, subdue, be, reign, appear · **To what, where:** cloak, spectre, large hall, subdued light, churchyard

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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 (spectre, child), 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:pg27200:17:45
# text = Then the cloak was removed, and she found herself in a large hall, of wide-spreading dimensions, in which there was a subdued light, like twilight, reigning, and in a moment her child appeared before her, smiling, and more beautiful than ever; with a silent cry she pressed him to her heart.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	removed	remove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
10	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	spreading	spreading	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	dimensions	dimension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	subdued	subdue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	reigning	reign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	49	advmod	_	_
49	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
50	than	than	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
59	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	obj	_	_
60	to	to	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
62	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remove** | past · passive |  | the cloak |  |  | then |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | spectre | spectre |  | a large hall |  | of spreading dimensions | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
| 3 | **subdue** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a subdued light and twilight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reign** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **appear** | past | spectre's child |  |  |  | before spectre; moment |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
| 7 | **smile** | gerund | spectre's child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **press** | past | spectre | churchyard |  |  |  | with a silent cry; to spectre's heart | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |

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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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