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title: It trembled so with joy in all its branches, that one of the candles… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It trembled so with joy in all its branches, that one of the candles fell among the green leaves and burnt some of them. " Who acts: blaze, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 72

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It trembled so with joy in all its branches, that one of the candles fell among the green leaves and burnt some of them. "

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**Who acts:** blaze, one · **What happens:** tremble, fall · **To what, where:** branches, green leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blaze, one), 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:pg27200:33:72
# text = It trembled so with joy in all its branches, that one of the candles fell among the green leaves and burnt some of them. "
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	burnt	burnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | blaze |  |  | blaze's branches |  | with joy | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | that one |  |  | the green leaves |  | of the candles | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among leaf=Location |

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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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