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title: The lamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows were covered with heavy curtains of some costly silken material. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 3

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The lamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows were covered with heavy curtains of some costly silken material.

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**What happens:** shade, cover · **To what, where:** lamp, windows

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. 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:pg27200:70:3
# text = The lamp in the bed-chamber had been partly shaded, and the windows were covered with heavy curtains of some costly silken material.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	nsubj	_	_
23	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shade** | past · perfect · passive |  | the lamp in the bed chamber |  |  |  | partly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the windows |  |  |  | with heavy curtains of costly silken material | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with curtain=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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