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title: The sky painted itself red, the first sunbeam pierced through the cl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sky painted itself red, the first sunbeam pierced through the clouds, and in the clear flood of sunlight the frog became changed. Who acts: sky, sunlight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 2

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The sky painted itself red, the first sunbeam pierced through the clouds, and in the clear flood of sunlight the frog became changed.

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**Who acts:** sky, sunlight · **What happens:** paint, pierce, change, flood · **To what, where:** sky, first sunbeam, frog, clear flood

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sky, sunlight), 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:pg27200:86:2
# text = The sky painted itself red, the first sunbeam pierced through the clouds, and in the clear flood of sunlight the frog became changed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	amod	_	_
9	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past | the sky | sky |  |  |  | the first sunbeam *obl*; red *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Destination |
| 2 | **pierce** | participle |  | the first sunbeam *not said here* |  |  |  | through the clouds | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent through cloud=Patient |
| 3 | **change** | past · passive |  | the frog |  | the clear flood of sunlight |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **flood** |  | sunlight |  |  |  |  |  | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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