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title: "Do you see the shimmer of the rainbow, which unites earth to heaven?" — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do you see the shimmer of the rainbow, which unites earth to heaven?" Who acts: you, shimmer, rainbow. 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 44

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"Do you see the shimmer of the rainbow, which unites earth to heaven?"

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**Who acts:** you, shimmer, rainbow · **What happens:** see, unite, shimmer · **To what, where:** shimmer, earth

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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: who acts (you, shimmer, rainbow), 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:pg27200:70:44
# text = "Do you see the shimmer of the rainbow, which unites earth to heaven?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shimmer	shimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	unites	unite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
13	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | the shimmer of the rainbow |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shimmer=Stimulus |
| 2 | **unite** *in a quote* | present | the shimmer of the rainbow | earth |  |  |  | to heaven | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient to heaven=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **shimmer** *in a quote* |  | the rainbow |  |  |  |  |  | nom shimmer «event 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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