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title: Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, inhaling the invigorating mountain air. Who acts: Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 86

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Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, inhaling the invigorating mountain air.

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**Who acts:** Rudy · **What happens:** be, step, inhale, invigorate · **To what, where:** Bright feelings, invigorating mountain air

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy), 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:pg27200:55:86
# text = Bright and joyous were his feelings as he stepped lightly onwards, inhaling the invigorating mountain air.
1	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	onwards	onwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	inhaling	inhale	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	invigorating	invigorate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Rudy's Bright feelings |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **step** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | onwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **inhale** | gerund | Rudy *not said here* | the invigorating mountain air |  |  |  |  | vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
| 4 | **invigorate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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