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title: The moon threw its beams particularly on one spot where stood a tree… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon threw its beams particularly on one spot where stood a tree covered with exceedingly fine moss. Who acts: moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 24

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The moon threw its beams particularly on one spot where stood a tree covered with exceedingly fine moss.

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**Who acts:** moon · **What happens:** throw, stand, cover, beam · **To what, where:** beams, one spot, tree

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), 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:pg27200:179:24
# text = The moon threw its beams particularly on one spot where stood a tree covered with exceedingly fine moss.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past | the moon | moon's beams |  | one spot |  | particularly *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme on spot=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a tree *not said here* |  |  |  | with fine moss | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with moss=Theme |
| 4 | **beam** |  | moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication 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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