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title: The last rays of the setting sun shone upon her, and gleamed over th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The last rays of the setting sun shone upon her, and gleamed over the altar upon the shining clasps of the Bible, which lay open at the words of the prophet Joel, "Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord." Who acts: last rays, Bible. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Anne Lisbeth, sentence 173

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The last rays of the setting sun shone upon her, and gleamed over the altar upon the shining clasps of the Bible, which lay open at the words of the prophet Joel, "Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord."

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**Who acts:** last rays, Bible · **What happens:** shine, gleam, lie, rend, turn, ray · **To what, where:** altar, words, hearts, setting sun, prophet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Anne Lisbeth. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last rays, Bible), 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:pg27200:5:173
# text = The last rays of the setting sun shone upon her, and gleamed over the altar upon the shining clasps of the Bible, which lay open at the words of the prophet Joel, "Rend your hearts and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	clasps	clasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Bible	Bible	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	Joel	Joel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	Rend	rend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
47	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	46	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the last rays of the setting sun |  |  |  |  | upon Anne | tree rules |
| 2 | **gleam** | participle | the last rays of the setting sun *not said here* |  |  | the altar |  | upon the shining clasps of the Bible | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over altar=Location |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the Bible |  |  | the words of the prophet |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at word=Location |
| 5 | **rend** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Bible *not said here* | your hearts and your garments |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 6 | **turn** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | unto the Lord | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **ray** |  |  | the setting sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | the prophet |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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