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title: After a while, a flash of lightning seemed to pass through him, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while, a flash of lightning seemed to pass through him, and then the daylight approached, and a voice cried out, "I declare here is the tin soldier." Who acts: flash, daylight, voice, lightning. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 61

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After a while, a flash of lightning seemed to pass through him, and then the daylight approached, and a voice cried out, "I declare here is the tin soldier."

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**Who acts:** flash, daylight, voice, lightning · **What happens:** seem, pass, approach, cry out, declare, be · **To what, where:** tin soldier · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flash, daylight, voice, lightning), 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:pg27200:192:61
# text = After a while, a flash of lightning seemed to pass through him, and then the daylight approached, and a voice cried out, "I declare here is the tin soldier."
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	declare	declare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | a flash of lightning |  |  |  | while |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | a flash of lightning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through flash | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through he=Location |
| 3 | **approach** | past | the daylight |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* | participle | a voice |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | a voice *= voice* |  |  | here |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the tin soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **flash** |  | lightning |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event 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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