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title: There was no night-lamp burning, but the room appeared quite light,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no night-lamp burning, but the room appeared quite light, for the moon shone through the window upon the floor, and made it almost like day. Who acts: night lamp burning, room. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 85

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There was no night-lamp burning, but the room appeared quite light, for the moon shone through the window upon the floor, and made it almost like day.

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**Who acts:** night lamp burning, room · **What happens:** be, appear, shine, make · **To what, where:** light, moon, window, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night lamp burning, room), 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:pg27200:73:85
# text = There was no night-lamp burning, but the room appeared quite light, for the moon shone through the window upon the floor, and made it almost like day.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	burning	burning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no night lamp burning |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | the room | light and the moon |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | participle |  | the moon *not said here* |  | the window |  | upon the floor | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past | the room *not said here* | room |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |

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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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