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title: And she looked at the red sun, and she thought about it so deeply, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 7

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And she looked at the red sun, and she thought about it so deeply, and thought of the little one whom the stork was to bring, and the wife of the drummer was very cheerful, and looked and looked, and wished that the child might have a gleam of sunshine given to it, so that it might at least become like one of the shining angels over the altar.

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**Who acts:** wife, stork, child · **What happens:** look, think, be, wish, have, give · **To what, where:** gleam, sunshine, sun, least · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, stork, child), 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:pg27200:39:7
# text = And she looked at the red sun, and she thought about it so deeply, and thought of the little one whom the stork was to bring, and the wife of the drummer was very cheerful, and looked and looked, and wished that the child might have a gleam of sunshine given to it, so that it might at least become like one of the shining angels over the altar.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	about	about	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	drummer	drummer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
37	very	very	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
56	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	acl	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
60	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	63	mark	_	_
61	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	60	fixed	_	_
62	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	nsubj	_	_
63	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	66	aux	_	_
64	at	at	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	66	obl	_	_
66	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
67	like	like	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
68	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	66	obl	_	_
69	of	of	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
70	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
71	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	72	amod	_	_
72	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	68	nmod	_	_
73	over	over	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | at the red sun | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wife |  |  |  |  | about sun; deeply *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the little one | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the stork |  |  |  |  | bring *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | the wife of the drummer |  |  |  |  | cheerful *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 8 | **wish** | past | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 9 | **have** | might | the child | a gleam of sunshine |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gleam=Patient |
| 10 | **give** | participle |  | sunshine *not said here* | sun |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient |
| 11 | **become** | might | wife *not said here* |  |  | least |  | like one of the shining angels over the altar | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 12 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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