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title: The sun shone brightly in the blue firmament above, and through the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun shone brightly in the blue firmament above, and through the clear mountain air came the sound of the huntsman's horn, and the soft, sweet notes brought tears into his eyes, and he could not help exclaiming, "How good and loving God is to give us all this beauty and loveliness in the world to
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 13

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The sun shone brightly in the blue firmament above, and through the clear mountain air came the sound of the huntsman's horn, and the soft, sweet notes brought tears into his eyes, and he could not help exclaiming, "How good and loving God is to give us all this beauty and loveliness in the world to make us happy!"

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**Who acts:** sun, soft sweet notes, God · **What happens:** shine, come, bring, not help, exclaim, be · **To what, where:** blue firmament, sound, clear mountain air, tears, eyes, us · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, soft sweet notes, God), 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:pg27200:197:13
# text = The sun shone brightly in the blue firmament above, and through the clear mountain air came the sound of the huntsman's horn, and the soft, sweet notes brought tears into his eyes, and he could not help exclaiming, "How good and loving God is to give us all this beauty and loveliness in the world to make us happy!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	firmament	firmament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	above	above	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
33	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
43	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	53	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	47	advmod	_	_
47	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	ccomp	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
50	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
54	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	iobj	_	_
55	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	57	det:predet	_	_
56	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	57	det	_	_
57	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nmod	_	_
63	to	to	PART	TO	_	64	mark	_	_
64	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	advcl	_	_
65	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  | the blue firmament |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in firmament=Location |
| 2 | **come** | past |  | the sound of the huntsman's horn |  | the clear mountain air |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sound=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the soft sweet notes | tears |  | sun's eyes |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme into eye=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **help** | could | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | God |  | us |  |  | give *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | us |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |

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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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