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title: The sun is shining on the gilt knob of the tower, little wooded isla… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun is shining on the gilt knob of the tower, little wooded islands lie like bouquets on the water, and wild swans are swimming round them. Who acts: sun, little wooded islands, wild swans. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 19

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The sun is shining on the gilt knob of the tower, little wooded islands lie like bouquets on the water, and wild swans are swimming round them.

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**Who acts:** sun, little wooded islands, wild swans · **What happens:** shine, wood, lie, swim · **To what, where:** gilt knob

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, little wooded islands, wild swans), 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:pg27200:22:19
# text = The sun is shining on the gilt knob of the tower, little wooded islands lie like bouquets on the water, and wild swans are swimming round them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gilt	gilt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	knob	knob	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bouquets	bouquet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
28	round	round	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	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 | **shine** | present · progressive | the sun |  |  | the gilt knob of the tower |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knob=Location |
| 2 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | present | little wooded islands |  |  |  |  | like bouquets on the water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **swim** | present · progressive | wild swans |  |  |  |  | round islands *= island* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round they=Trajectory |

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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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