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title: Great suns spurted fire about, splendid fireflies flew into the blue… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Great suns spurted fire about, splendid fireflies flew into the blue air, and everything was reflected in the clear, calm sea beneath. Who acts: Great suns. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 83

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Great suns spurted fire about, splendid fireflies flew into the blue air, and everything was reflected in the clear, calm sea beneath.

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**Who acts:** Great suns · **What happens:** spurt, fly, reflect · **To what, where:** fire, blue air, everything, clear calm sea

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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 (Great suns), 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:pg27200:75:83
# text = Great suns spurted fire about, splendid fireflies flew into the blue air, and everything was reflected in the clear, calm sea beneath.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	suns	sun	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	spurted	spurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fireflies	firefly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spurt** | participle | Great suns *not said here* | fire |  |  |  | about *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | Great suns |  |  |  |  | into the blue air *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
| 3 | **reflect** | past · passive |  | everything |  | the clear calm sea |  | beneath *property* | tree rules |

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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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