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title: The largest of them extended for several miles; they were all lighte… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest of them extended for several miles; they were all lighted up by the vivid light of the aurora, and they were so large and empty, so icy cold and glittering! Who acts: vivid light, rooms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Q
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 3

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The largest of them extended for several miles; they were all lighted up by the vivid light of the aurora, and they were so large and empty, so icy cold and glittering!

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**Who acts:** vivid light, rooms · **What happens:** light up, be, glitter, light · **To what, where:** rooms, aurora

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vivid light, rooms), 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:pg27200:176:3
# text = The largest of them extended for several miles; they were all lighted up by the vivid light of the aurora, and they were so large and empty, so icy cold and glittering!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	aurora	aurora	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light up** | past · passive | the vivid light of the aurora | rooms *= room* |  |  |  | all *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | rooms *= room* |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | rooms *= room* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | rooms *= room* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | rooms *= room* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **light** |  |  | the aurora |  |  |  |  | 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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