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title: The moon shone bright, gas-lamps spread light around, through the ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The moon shone bright, gas-lamps spread light around, through the halls, over the all-world's buildings scattered about, over the rose-hills and the rocks produced by human ingenuity, from which waterfalls, driven by the power of "Master Bloodless," fell down. Who acts: moon, gas lamps. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 80

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The moon shone bright, gas-lamps spread light around, through the halls, over the all-world's buildings scattered about, over the rose-hills and the rocks produced by human ingenuity, from which waterfalls, driven by the power of "Master Bloodless," fell down.

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**Who acts:** moon, gas lamps · **What happens:** shine, spread around, scatter, produce, drive, fall down · **To what, where:** light, halls, buildings, rocks

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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, gas lamps), 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:pg27200:26:80
# text = The moon shone bright, gas-lamps spread light around, through the halls, over the all-world's buildings scattered about, over the rose-hills and the rocks produced by human ingenuity, from which waterfalls, driven by the power of "Master Bloodless," fell down.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	gas	gas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	around	around	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	through	through	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
24	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
35	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ingenuity	ingenuity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	42	det	_	_
42	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	Bloodless	Bloodless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	54	punct	_	_
54	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
55	down	down	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the moon |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spread around** | present | gas lamps | light |  | the halls |  | over all world's buildings and the rose hills and the rocks and which waterfalls; around *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme through hall=Destination |
| 3 | **scatter** | participle |  | all world's buildings and the rose hills and the rocks and which waterfalls *not said here* |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **produce** | participle |  | the rocks *not said here* |  |  |  | by human ingenuity | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drive** | participle |  | all world's buildings and the rose hills and the rocks and which waterfalls *not said here* |  |  |  | by the power of Master | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fall down** | past | the moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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