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title: A sudden flash of thought, like a ray of mercy, recalled her dream o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A sudden flash of thought, like a ray of mercy, recalled her dream of the preceding night; all was vividly represented before her. Who acts: sudden flash, thought, happiness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 71

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A sudden flash of thought, like a ray of mercy, recalled her dream of the preceding night; all was vividly represented before her.

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**Who acts:** sudden flash, thought, happiness · **What happens:** recall, precede, represent, flash, ray, dream · **To what, where:** dream, all, mercy, preceding night

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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 (sudden flash, thought, happiness), 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:pg27200:66:71
# text = A sudden flash of thought, like a ray of mercy, recalled her dream of the preceding night; all was vividly represented before her.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	recalled	recall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	vividly	vividly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
25	before	before	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recall** | past | a sudden flash of thought | happiness's dream of the preceding night |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Theme |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **represent** | past · passive |  | all |  |  | before happiness | vividly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **flash** |  | thought |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **ray** |  |  | mercy |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **dream** |  | happiness | the preceding night |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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