--- title: The moon shone bright, a mist was over the meadow, making it look li… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The moon shone bright, a mist was over the meadow, making it look like a great lake; and, indeed, it was once so, as the legend tells--and in the moonlight the eye realizes these myths. Who acts: moon, mist, meadow, legend. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, mist, meadow, legend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:211:67 # text = The moon shone bright, a mist was over the meadow, making it look like a great lake; and, indeed, it was once so, as the legend tells--and in the moonlight the eye realizes these myths. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mist mist NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 28 advmod _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 legend legend NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 tells tell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 moonlight moonlight NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 realizes realize VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 42 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 43 det _ _ 43 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | past | the moon | | | | | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | a mist | | | the meadow | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | gerund | the moon *not said here* | meadow | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **look** | infinitive | meadow *not said here* | | | | | like a great lake | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **is** | past | meadow | | | | | indeed, once, so *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the legend | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **realize** | present | the eye | this myths | | the moonlight | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myth=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/68/) - ↑ back to [The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/211/)