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title: The moon, like a large lamp, hung high up in the blue ceiling, and h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon, like a large lamp, hung high up in the blue ceiling, and he had no fear of its setting fire to his curtains. Who acts: moon, fear. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 40

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The moon, like a large lamp, hung high up in the blue ceiling, and he had no fear of its setting fire to his curtains.

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**Who acts:** moon, fear · **What happens:** hang, have, fear, fire · **To what, where:** large lamp, blue ceiling, fear, setting fire

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, fear), 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:pg27200:196:40
# text = The moon, like a large lamp, hung high up in the blue ceiling, and he had no fear of its setting fire to his curtains.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | participle |  | a large lamp *not said here* |  | the blue ceiling |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ceiling=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | the moon and a large lamp | no fear of fear's setting fire |  |  |  | to haystack's curtains | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient |
| 3 | **fear** |  |  | fear's setting fire |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **fire** |  | fear |  |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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