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title: Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a solemn twilight reigned. Who acts: solemn twilight. 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 122

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Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a solemn twilight reigned.

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**Who acts:** solemn twilight · **What happens:** float, paint, gild, reign · **To what, where:** Incense, lofty painted aisles

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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 (solemn twilight), 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:pg27200:25:122
# text = Incense floated through the lofty painted and gilded aisles, where a solemn twilight reigned.
1	Incense	incense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	aisles	aisle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	reigned	reign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle |  | Incense *not said here* |  | the lofty painted aisles |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through aisle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reign** | participle | a solemn twilight |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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