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title: A thousand gleaming spiders ran here and there on the walls, causing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A thousand gleaming spiders ran here and there on the walls, causing them to glitter as if they were illuminated with fire. Who acts: thousand gleaming spiders, spiders. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 99

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A thousand gleaming spiders ran here and there on the walls, causing them to glitter as if they were illuminated with fire.

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**Who acts:** thousand gleaming spiders, spiders · **What happens:** gleam, run, cause, glitter, illuminate · **To what, where:** walls, spiders

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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 (thousand gleaming spiders, spiders), 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:pg27200:197:99
# text = A thousand gleaming spiders ran here and there on the walls, causing them to glitter as if they were illuminated with fire.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	glitter	glitter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **run** | past | thousand gleaming spiders |  |  | the walls; here |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **cause** | gerund | thousand gleaming spiders *not said here* | spiders *= spider* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glitter** | to-infinitive | spiders *= spider* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **illuminate** | past · passive |  | spiders *= spider* |  |  |  | with fire | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fire=Theme |

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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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