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title: The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle. Who acts: games, northern lights. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happene
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last, sentence 7

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The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle.

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**Who acts:** games, northern lights · **What happens:** see, rise, flame · **To what, where:** flickering flame, heavens

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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 (games, northern lights), 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:pg27200:176:7
# text = The flickering flame of the northern lights could be plainly seen, whether they rose high or low in the heavens, from every part of the castle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	flickering	flickering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could · passive |  | the flickering flame of the northern lights |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | past | games *= game* |  |  | the heavens |  | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heaven=Location |
| 3 | **flame** |  | the northern lights |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process 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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