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title: Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance, as if it were surround… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance, as if it were surrounded by the air from above, through which the blue sky shone, instead of the dark depths of the sea. Who acts: air, blue sky. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 18

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Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance, as if it were surrounded by the air from above, through which the blue sky shone, instead of the dark depths of the sea.

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**Who acts:** air, blue sky · **What happens:** lie, surround, shine · **To what, where:** peculiar blue radiance, everything, radiance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, blue sky), 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:pg27200:75:18
# text = Over everything lay a peculiar blue radiance, as if it were surrounded by the air from above, through which the blue sky shone, instead of the dark depths of the sea.
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	peculiar	peculiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	above	above	ADV	RB	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	31	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | a peculiar blue radiance |  | everything |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location radiance=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | the air | radiance |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **shine** | participle | the blue sky |  |  |  |  | instead the dark depths of the sea | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Location |

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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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