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title: They often thought the last spark had come; and one would cry, "Ther… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They often thought the last spark had come; and one would cry, "There goes the schoolmaster;" but the next moment another spark would appear, shining so beautifully. Who acts: sparks, last spark, one, next moment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 72

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They often thought the last spark had come; and one would cry, "There goes the schoolmaster;" but the next moment another spark would appear, shining so beautifully.

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**Who acts:** sparks, last spark, one, next moment · **What happens:** think, come, cry, go, appear, shine · **To what, where:** schoolmaster · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparks, last spark, one, next moment), 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:pg27200:34:72
# text = They often thought the last spark had come; and one would cry, "There goes the schoolmaster;" but the next moment another spark would appear, shining so beautifully.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	schoolmaster	schoolmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
27	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	xcomp	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | sparks *= spark* |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | the last spark |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | would | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **go** *in a quote* | present | one *not said here* | the schoolmaster |  | there |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location schoolmaster=Theme |
| 5 | **appear** | would | the next moment |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **shine** | gerund | the next moment *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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