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title: The sweet, fresh air; the soft radiance of the moon, as its light sp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sweet, fresh air; the soft radiance of the moon, as its light spread over the earth; the fragrance which exhaled from bush and tree, made it feel happy as it sat there clothed in its fresh, bright plumage. Who acts: light, fragrance, sweet fresh air, moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chri
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 83

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The sweet, fresh air; the soft radiance of the moon, as its light spread over the earth; the fragrance which exhaled from bush and tree, made it feel happy as it sat there clothed in its fresh, bright plumage.

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**Who acts:** light, fragrance, sweet fresh air, moon · **What happens:** spread, exhale, make, feel, sit, clothe · **To what, where:** earth, bush, light

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, fragrance, sweet fresh air, moon), 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:pg27200:37:83
# text = The sweet, fresh air; the soft radiance of the moon, as its light spread over the earth; the fragrance which exhaled from bush and tree, made it feel happy as it sat there clothed in its fresh, bright plumage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	exhaled	exhale	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
38	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
39	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
41	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
42	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
44	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | moon's light |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over earth=Location |
| 2 | **exhale** | past | the fragrance |  |  | bush and tree |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | the sweet fresh air and the soft radiance of the moon and the fragrance | light |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | infinitive | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sit** | past | light |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **clothe** | participle | light *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in light's fresh bright plumage | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in plumage=Theme |
| 7 | **radiate** |  | the moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom radiance «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **light** |  | moon |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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