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title: The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled. Who acts: thunder. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 36

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The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.

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**Who acts:** thunder · **What happens:** light up, roll, peal · **To what, where:** heavens, peal

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (thunder), 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:pg27200:209:36
# text = The heavens were lighted up with continual flashes, and peal after peal of thunder rolled.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	continual	continual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	flashes	flash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	peal	peal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	peal	peal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light up** | past · passive |  | the heavens |  |  |  | with continual flashes | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with flash=Material |
| 2 | **roll** | participle · passive |  | peal after peal of thunder |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 3 | **peal** |  | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=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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