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title: Rudy and Babette felt that they had never seen the Alpine glow in su… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy and Babette felt that they had never seen the Alpine glow in such perfection before. " Who acts: Rudy, peaks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 14

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Rudy and Babette felt that they had never seen the Alpine glow in such perfection before. "

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**Who acts:** Rudy, peaks · **What happens:** feel, not see · **To what, where:** Alpine glow, such perfection

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, peaks), 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:pg27200:66:14
# text = Rudy and Babette felt that they had never seen the Alpine glow in such perfection before. "
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	perfection	perfection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Rudy and Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | peaks *= peak* | the Alpine glow |  | such perfection |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glow=Stimulus |

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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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