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title: They who place themselves in a circle every evening on the mountain… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They who place themselves in a circle every evening on the mountain peaks; there they spread out their rose-colored wings, which, as the sun sinks, become more flaming red, until the lofty Alps seem to burn with fire. Who acts: bells, sun, lofty Alps. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 93

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They who place themselves in a circle every evening on the mountain peaks; there they spread out their rose-colored wings, which, as the sun sinks, become more flaming red, until the lofty Alps seem to burn with fire.

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**Who acts:** bells, sun, lofty Alps · **What happens:** spread out, color, sink, become, flame, seem · **To what, where:** colored wings

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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 (bells, sun, lofty Alps), 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:pg27200:52:93
# text = They who place themselves in a circle every evening on the mountain peaks; there they spread out their rose-colored wings, which, as the sun sinks, become more flaming red, until the lofty Alps seem to burn with fire.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	peaks	peak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
20	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	colored	color	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sinks	sink	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
33	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
34	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	xcomp	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Alps	alp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
41	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread out** | present | bells *= bell* | bells's colored wings |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **color** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sink** | present | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive |  | bells's colored wings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **flame** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seem** | present | the lofty Alps |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **burn** | to-infinitive | the lofty Alps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=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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