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title: Towards evening, when the moon rose beautifully, though not yet in h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Towards evening, when the moon rose beautifully, though not yet in her full splendor, I glanced from my bed over the wide sea; and there, just where the sea and sky met, rose a curious white cloud. Who acts: moon, I, sea. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 175

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Towards evening, when the moon rose beautifully, though not yet in her full splendor, I glanced from my bed over the wide sea; and there, just where the sea and sky met, rose a curious white cloud.

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**Who acts:** moon, I, sea · **What happens:** rise, glance, meet · **To what, where:** curious white cloud

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, I, sea), 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:pg27200:177:175
# text = Towards evening, when the moon rose beautifully, though not yet in her full splendor, I glanced from my bed over the wide sea; and there, just where the sea and sky met, rose a curious white cloud.
1	Towards	toward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	compound	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	splendor	splendor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	37	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
37	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the moon |  |  |  | yet; evening | beautifully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glance** | past | I |  |  |  |  | over the wide sea; from my bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from bed=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | past | the sea and sky |  |  | there |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rise** | past | the sea and sky *not said here* | a curious white cloud |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme |

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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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