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title: The windows were very high, and as the panes were red, blue, and yel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The windows were very high, and as the panes were red, blue, and yellow, the daylight shone through them in all sorts of singular colors. Who acts: windows, panes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 39

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The windows were very high, and as the panes were red, blue, and yellow, the daylight shone through them in all sorts of singular colors.

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**Who acts:** windows, panes · **What happens:** be, shine, sort · **To what, where:** daylight, sorts, singular colors

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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 (windows, panes), 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:pg27200:172:39
# text = The windows were very high, and as the panes were red, blue, and yellow, the daylight shone through them in all sorts of singular colors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	panes	pane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the windows |  |  |  |  | high *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the panes |  |  |  |  | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the panes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | participle |  | the daylight *not said here* |  | all sorts of singular colors |  | through panes *= pane* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through they=Location |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | singular colors |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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