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title: A ray of the setting sun shoots into the bare cells of one of the ca… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A ray of the setting sun shoots into the bare cells of one of the captives, for God's sun shines upon the evil and the good. Who acts: ray, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 7

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A ray of the setting sun shoots into the bare cells of one of the captives, for God's sun shines upon the evil and the good.

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**Who acts:** ray, sun · **What happens:** shoot, shine, ray · **To what, where:** bare cells, evil, setting sun

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ray, sun), 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:pg27200:186:7
# text = A ray of the setting sun shoots into the bare cells of one of the captives, for God's sun shines upon the evil and the good.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	shoots	shoot	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | present | a ray of the setting sun |  |  | the bare cells of one of the captives |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into cell=Destination |
| 2 | **shine** | present | God's sun |  |  | the evil |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon evil=Location |
| 3 | **ray** |  |  | the setting sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «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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