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title: In the same moment she was sitting beneath the brightly-illuminated… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the same moment she was sitting beneath the brightly-illuminated leafy branches, young and beautiful to behold, like poor Mary, to whom the clergyman had said, "The great city will be thy destruction." Who acts: trembling, great city. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 82

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In the same moment she was sitting beneath the brightly-illuminated leafy branches, young and beautiful to behold, like poor Mary, to whom the clergyman had said, "The great city will be thy destruction."

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**Who acts:** trembling, great city · **What happens:** sit, illuminate, say, be · **To what, where:** same moment, clergyman, destruction · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (trembling, great city), 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:pg27200:25:82
# text = In the same moment she was sitting beneath the brightly-illuminated leafy branches, young and beautiful to behold, like poor Mary, to whom the clergyman had said, "The great city will be thy destruction."
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
10	brightly	brightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
13	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
39	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | trembling | the same moment *not said here* |  |  | to the same moment | beneath the illuminated leafy branches; like poor Mary | tree rules |
| 2 | **illuminate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the clergyman |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | the great city | thy destruction |  |  |  |  | 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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