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title: His bright beams rested on the white walls of the neighboring house;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His bright beams rested on the white walls of the neighboring house; and close by bloomed the first yellow flower of the season, glittering like gold in the sun's warm ray. Who acts: Kay, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Wh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 117

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His bright beams rested on the white walls of the neighboring house; and close by bloomed the first yellow flower of the season, glittering like gold in the sun's warm ray.

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**Who acts:** Kay, sun · **What happens:** rest, neighbor, bloom, glitter, beam, ray · **To what, where:** bright beams, white walls, first yellow flower, warm ray

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, sun), 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:pg27200:172:117
# text = His bright beams rested on the white walls of the neighboring house; and close by bloomed the first yellow flower of the season, glittering like gold in the sun's warm ray.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	neighboring	neighbor	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bloomed	bloom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | participle · passive |  | Kay's bright beams |  | the white walls of the neighboring house |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme on wall=Location |
| 2 | **neighbor** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bloom** | participle |  | the first yellow flower of the season |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location flower=Theme |
| 4 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  | the sun's warm ray |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ray=Location |
| 5 | **beam** |  | Kay |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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