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title: Look at the alchymic glass,' he cried; 'something glows in the cruci… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at the alchymic glass,' he cried; 'something glows in the crucible, pure and heavy.' Who acts: you, fire, something. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 131

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Look at the alchymic glass,' he cried; 'something glows in the crucible, pure and heavy.'

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**Who acts:** you, fire, something · **What happens:** look, cry, glow · **To what, where:** crucible

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fire, something), 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:pg27200:212:131
# text = Look at the alchymic glass,' he cried; 'something glows in the crucible, pure and heavy.'
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	alchymic	alchymic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	glows	glow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crucible	crucible	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the alchymic glass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glass=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **glow** | present | something |  |  | the crucible |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crucible=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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