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title: Now lanterns shed their radiance abroad; now the gas had the upper h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now lanterns shed their radiance abroad; now the gas had the upper hand; suddenly a rocket rises! Who acts: lanterns, gas, rocket. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 101

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Now lanterns shed their radiance abroad; now the gas had the upper hand; suddenly a rocket rises!

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**Who acts:** lanterns, gas, rocket · **What happens:** shed, have, rise, radiate · **To what, where:** radiance, upper hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (lanterns, gas, rocket), 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:pg27200:25:101
# text = Now lanterns shed their radiance abroad; now the gas had the upper hand; suddenly a rocket rises!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shed** | past | lanterns | lanterns's radiance |  |  | now | abroad *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location radiance=Source |
| 2 | **have** | past | the gas | the upper hand |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **rise** | present | a rocket |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **radiate** |  | lanterns *= lantern* |  |  |  |  |  | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=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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