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title: The sun rose up red and glowing from the water, and its beams brough… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun rose up red and glowing from the water, and its beams brought back the hue of health to the prince's cheeks; but his eyes remained closed. Who acts: sun, beams, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 16

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The sun rose up red and glowing from the water, and its beams brought back the hue of health to the prince's cheeks; but his eyes remained closed.

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**Who acts:** sun, beams, eyes · **What happens:** rise up, glow, bring back, remain, close, beam · **To what, where:** water, hue, cheeks

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, beams, eyes), 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:pg27200:76:16
# text = The sun rose up red and glowing from the water, and its beams brought back the hue of health to the prince's cheeks; but his eyes remained closed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise up** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **glow** | gerund | the sun *not said here* |  |  | the water |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring back** | past | sun's beams | the hue of health |  | the prince's cheeks |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hue=Theme to cheek=Destination |
| 4 | **remain** | past | fragment's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **close** | participle | fragment's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **beam** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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