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title: The fruit gleamed like stars, and the room was filled with sounds of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fruit gleamed like stars, and the room was filled with sounds of beautiful music. Who acts: fruit. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 27

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The fruit gleamed like stars, and the room was filled with sounds of beautiful music.

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**Who acts:** fruit · **What happens:** gleam, fill · **To what, where:** fruit, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit), 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:pg27200:38:27
# text = The fruit gleamed like stars, and the room was filled with sounds of beautiful music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | participle |  | the fruit *not said here* |  |  |  | like stars | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive | the fruit *not said here* | the room |  |  |  | with sounds of beautiful music | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with sound=Instrument |

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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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