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title: She saw a glittering portal open, that led to a little garden, where… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw a glittering portal open, that led to a little garden, where all was brightness and dance music. Who acts: moon, glittering portal. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 55

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She saw a glittering portal open, that led to a little garden, where all was brightness and dance music.

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**Who acts:** moon, glittering portal · **What happens:** see, glitter, lead, be · **To what, where:** glittering portal, brightness

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, glittering portal), 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:pg27200:26:55
# text = She saw a glittering portal open, that led to a little garden, where all was brightness and dance music.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | moon | a glittering portal |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lead** | past | a glittering portal |  |  |  |  | to a little garden | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to garden=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | all brightness and dance |  |  |  |  | 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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