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title: May hundreds of colossal shells, some of a deep red, others of a gra… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: May hundreds of colossal shells, some of a deep red, others of a grass green, stood on each side in rows, with blue fire in them, which lighted up the whole saloon, and shone through the walls, so that the sea was also illuminated. Who acts: hundreds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian And
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 70

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May hundreds of colossal shells, some of a deep red, others of a grass green, stood on each side in rows, with blue fire in them, which lighted up the whole saloon, and shone through the walls, so that the sea was also illuminated.

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**Who acts:** hundreds · **What happens:** stand, light up, shine, illuminate · **To what, where:** side, blue fire, walls, sea

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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 (hundreds), 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:pg27200:76:70
# text = May hundreds of colossal shells, some of a deep red, others of a grass green, stood on each side in rows, with blue fire in them, which lighted up the whole saloon, and shone through the walls, so that the sea was also illuminated.
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
2	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	colossal	colossal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	rows	row	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	saloon	saloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
41	through	through	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	also	also	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	illuminated	illuminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | may | hundreds of colossal shells |  |  | each side |  | in rows with blue fire in others | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 2 | **light up** | participle · passive |  | blue fire in others |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary saloon=Product |
| 3 | **shine** | participle | hundreds of colossal shells *not said here* |  |  | the walls |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wall=Location |
| 4 | **illuminate** | past · passive |  | the sea |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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