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title: Then before the eyes of little Tuk appeared a confusion of colors, r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then before the eyes of little Tuk appeared a confusion of colors, red and green; but it cleared off, and he could distinguish a cliff close to the bay, the slopes of which were quite overgrown with verdure, and on its summit stood a fine old church with pointed towers. Who acts: eyes, confusion, Tu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 39

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Then before the eyes of little Tuk appeared a confusion of colors, red and green; but it cleared off, and he could distinguish a cliff close to the bay, the slopes of which were quite overgrown with verdure, and on its summit stood a fine old church with pointed towers.

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**Who acts:** eyes, confusion, Tuk · **What happens:** appear, clear off, distinguish, overgrow, stand, confuse · **To what, where:** confusion, cliff, fine old church, summit, colors

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, confusion, Tuk), 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:pg27200:80:39
# text = Then before the eyes of little Tuk appeared a confusion of colors, red and green; but it cleared off, and he could distinguish a cliff close to the bay, the slopes of which were quite overgrown with verdure, and on its summit stood a fine old church with pointed towers.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	before	before	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cleared	clear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	obl	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux:pass	_	_
39	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	overgrown	overgrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl:relcl	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	verdure	verdure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
48	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the eyes of little Tuk | a confusion of colors |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location confusion=Theme |
| 2 | **clear off** | past | confusion |  |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
| 3 | **distinguish** | could | Tuk | a cliff |  |  |  | the slopes *obl*; close *property* | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute cliff=Theme |
| 4 | **overgrow** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the slopes; with verdure | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | past | the eyes of little Tuk *not said here* | a fine old church |  | confusion's summit |  | with pointed towers | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent church=Theme on summit=Destination |
| 6 | **confuse** |  |  | colors |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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