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title: And they were standing before the magnificently illuminated gate; th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And they were standing before the magnificently illuminated gate; the broad steps were adorned with carpets and flowers, and dance music was sounding through the festive halls. Who acts: thoughts, dance music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 46

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And they were standing before the magnificently illuminated gate; the broad steps were adorned with carpets and flowers, and dance music was sounding through the festive halls.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, dance music · **What happens:** stand, illuminate, adorn, sound · **To what, where:** illuminated gate, broad steps, festive halls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, dance music), 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:pg27200:2:46
# text = And they were standing before the magnificently illuminated gate; the broad steps were adorned with carpets and flowers, and dance music was sounding through the festive halls.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	festive	festive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past · progressive | thoughts *= thought* |  |  | the illuminated gate |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before gate=Location |
| 2 | **illuminate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | magnificently *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **adorn** | past · passive |  | the broad steps |  |  |  | with carpets and flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with carpet=Theme |
| 4 | **sound** | past · progressive | dance music |  |  | the festive halls |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hall=Location |

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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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