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title: She looks at the Alpine glow in the evening sky, which is caused by… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She looks at the Alpine glow in the evening sky, which is caused by the children of the sun retiring to rest on the mountain-tops; and again they breathe their song of the traveller whom the whirlwind could deprive of his cloak but not of his life. Who acts: Babette, children, tops, whirlwind. A sen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XV. the Conclusion, sentence 89

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She looks at the Alpine glow in the evening sky, which is caused by the children of the sun retiring to rest on the mountain-tops; and again they breathe their song of the traveller whom the whirlwind could deprive of his cloak but not of his life.

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**Who acts:** Babette, children, tops, whirlwind, traveller · **What happens:** look, cause, retire, rest, breathe, deprive · **To what, where:** evening sky, mountain tops, song

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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 (Babette, children, tops, whirlwind), 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:pg27200:66:89
# text = She looks at the Alpine glow in the evening sky, which is caused by the children of the sun retiring to rest on the mountain-tops; and again they breathe their song of the traveller whom the whirlwind could deprive of his cloak but not of his life.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	retiring	retire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	breathe	breathe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	43	obj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	deprive	deprive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Babette |  |  |  |  | at the Alpine glow in the evening sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at glow=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | present · passive | the children of the sun | the evening sky |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 3 | **retire** | gerund | the children of the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | the children of the sun *not said here* |  |  | the mountain tops |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Location |
| 5 | **breathe** | present | tops *= top* | tops's song of the traveller |  |  | again |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
| 6 | **deprive** | could | the whirlwind |  |  |  |  | of whirlwind's cloak but whirlwind's life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Source of cloak=Theme |
| 7 | **sing** |  | the traveller |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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