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title: The lightning was so vivid that every single vine stem could be seen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lightning was so vivid that every single vine stem could be seen for a moment as distinctly as in the sunlight at noon-day; and then all was veiled in darkness. Who acts: lightning. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 57

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The lightning was so vivid that every single vine stem could be seen for a moment as distinctly as in the sunlight at noon-day; and then all was veiled in darkness.

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**Who acts:** lightning · **What happens:** be, see, veil · **To what, where:** single vine stem, all

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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 (lightning), 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:pg27200:66:57
# text = The lightning was so vivid that every single vine stem could be seen for a moment as distinctly as in the sunlight at noon-day; and then all was veiled in darkness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lightning	lightning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
8	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	vine	vine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	veiled	veil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lightning |  |  |  |  | vivid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | could · passive |  | every single vine stem |  |  | moment | distinctly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **veil** | past · passive |  | all |  |  | then | in darkness | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in darkness=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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