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title: The sun shone warmly, and the snow sparkled as if covered with glitt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun shone warmly, and the snow sparkled as if covered with glittering diamonds. Who acts: sun, snow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 46

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The sun shone warmly, and the snow sparkled as if covered with glittering diamonds.

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**Who acts:** sun, snow · **What happens:** shine, sparkle, cover

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, snow), 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:pg27200:53:46
# text = The sun shone warmly, and the snow sparkled as if covered with glittering diamonds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	warmly	warmly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	glittering	glittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | warmly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sparkle** | participle | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | the snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with glittering diamonds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=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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