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title: Then, when the sun set, how beautifully, deeply blue, would be the t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, when the sun set, how beautifully, deeply blue, would be the tint on the mountains, one rising above the other in the far distance, and the summit of mount Parnassus rising above them all like a glorious crown. Who acts: sun set, one, summit. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 75

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Then, when the sun set, how beautifully, deeply blue, would be the tint on the mountains, one rising above the other in the far distance, and the summit of mount Parnassus rising above them all like a glorious crown.

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**Who acts:** sun set, one, summit · **What happens:** be, rise · **To what, where:** tint, mountains, other

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun set, one, summit), 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:pg27200:36:75
# text = Then, when the sun set, how beautifully, deeply blue, would be the tint on the mountains, one rising above the other in the far distance, and the summit of mount Parnassus rising above them all like a glorious crown.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tint	tint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl	_	_
24	above	above	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	mount	mount	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	Parnassus	Parnassus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
38	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	acl	_	_
39	above	above	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	nmod:unmarked	_	_
42	like	like	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would | the sun set | the tint |  | the mountains | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund | one | the tint *not said here* |  | the other |  | in the far distance and the summit of mount | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tint=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | the summit of mount *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above summits *= summit* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above they=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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