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title: It was not quite dark; the northern lights shot forth red and blue f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was not quite dark; the northern lights shot forth red and blue flames, like continuous fireworks, and the snow glittered, and reflected back the light, so that the night here was one long twilight. Who acts: room, northern lights, snow, night. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 5

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It was not quite dark; the northern lights shot forth red and blue flames, like continuous fireworks, and the snow glittered, and reflected back the light, so that the night here was one long twilight.

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**Who acts:** room, northern lights, snow, night · **What happens:** not be, shoot, glitter, reflect back, be · **To what, where:** red flames, light, one long twilight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room, northern lights, snow, night), 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:pg27200:205:5
# text = It was not quite dark; the northern lights shot forth red and blue flames, like continuous fireworks, and the snow glittered, and reflected back the light, so that the night here was one long twilight.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shot	shoot	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	continuous	continuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	back	back	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	40	mark	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
36	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
39	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | room |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot** | past | the northern lights | red flames |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **reflect back** | past | the snow *not said here* | the light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the night | one long twilight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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