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title: And there, in a moment, he found himself, far away in the midst of I… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And there, in a moment, he found himself, far away in the midst of Italy, between Florence and Rome, where the lake Thrasymene glittered in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold between the dark blue mountains. Who acts: anxiety, lake. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 22

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And there, in a moment, he found himself, far away in the midst of Italy, between Florence and Rome, where the lake Thrasymene glittered in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold between the dark blue mountains.

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**Who acts:** anxiety, lake · **What happens:** find, glitter · **To what, where:** anxiety, evening sunlight

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anxiety, lake), 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:pg27200:45:22
# text = And there, in a moment, he found himself, far away in the midst of Italy, between Florence and Rome, where the lake Thrasymene glittered in the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold between the dark blue mountains.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	Thrasymene	Thrasymene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
29	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	between	between	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | anxiety | anxiety |  | there | moment | between Florence and Rome; away *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **glitter** | past | the lake |  |  | the evening sunlight like a sheet of molten gold between the dark blue mountains |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunlight=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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