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title: Fiercely shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiercely shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the heavy masses of snow which lie on the mountains. Who acts: heavy masses. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 3

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Fiercely shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the heavy masses of snow which lie on the mountains.

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**Who acts:** heavy masses · **What happens:** shine, lie · **To what, where:** sun, deep valleys, mountains

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heavy masses), 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:pg27200:52:3
# text = Fiercely shines the sun over those deep valleys, as well as upon the heavy masses of snow which lie on the mountains.
1	Fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	16	cc	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	masses	mass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | present |  | the sun |  | that deep valleys upon the heavy masses of snow |  | fiercely *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sun=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the heavy masses of snow |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mountain=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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