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title: But the marriage lamps in the festive hall had been all extinguished… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the marriage lamps in the festive hall had been all extinguished, and the torches outside had vanished. Who acts: marriage lamps, torches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 77

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But the marriage lamps in the festive hall had been all extinguished, and the torches outside had vanished.

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**Who acts:** marriage lamps, torches · **What happens:** be, vanish

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marriage lamps, torches), 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:pg27200:88:77
# text = But the marriage lamps in the festive hall had been all extinguished, and the torches outside had vanished.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	festive	festive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	cop	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | the marriage lamps in the festive hall |  |  |  |  | all, extinguished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the torches |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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