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title: Deep chasms yawned around it, the water-drops glittered as if lighte… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Deep chasms yawned around it, the water-drops glittered as if lighted with blue flame, and tinkled like the chiming of church bells. 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 34

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Deep chasms yawned around it, the water-drops glittered as if lighted with blue flame, and tinkled like the chiming of church bells.

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**What happens:** yawn, glitter, light, tinkle, chime · **To what, where:** Deep chasms, ring, water drops

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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: 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:pg27200:66:34
# text = Deep chasms yawned around it, the water-drops glittered as if lighted with blue flame, and tinkled like the chiming of church bells.
1	Deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	chasms	chasm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	yawned	yawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	around	around	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
11	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	tinkled	tinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	chiming	chime	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yawn** | participle |  | Deep chasms and the water drops *not said here* |  | ring |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glitter** | participle |  | the water drops *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **light** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with blue flame | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with flame=Material |
| 4 | **tinkle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **chime** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of church bells | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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