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title: The gas-jets gleamed from the shops, and shone even into the branche… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The gas-jets gleamed from the shops, and shone even into the branches of the trees, so that it was like sunlight in summer. Who acts: gas jets, jet. 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 claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 50

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The gas-jets gleamed from the shops, and shone even into the branches of the trees, so that it was like sunlight in summer.

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**Who acts:** gas jets, jet · **What happens:** gleam, shine, be · **To what, where:** gas jets, shops, branches

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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 (gas jets, jet), 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:pg27200:25:50
# text = The gas-jets gleamed from the shops, and shone even into the branches of the trees, so that it was like sunlight in summer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	jets	jet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
5	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | participle |  | the gas jets *not said here* |  | the shops |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the gas jets | the branches of the trees |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | jet |  |  |  | summer | like sunlight | 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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