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title: But the grandest appeared when the door of a side room opened; the l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the grandest appeared when the door of a side room opened; the little boy could remember what beautiful things he had seen there, but to-night everything shone in its brightest colors. Who acts: grandest, door, little boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 23

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But the grandest appeared when the door of a side room opened; the little boy could remember what beautiful things he had seen there, but to-night everything shone in its brightest colors.

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**Who acts:** grandest, door, little boy · **What happens:** appear, open, remember, see, shine · **To what, where:** beautiful things, everything, brightest colors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandest, door, little boy), 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:pg27200:89:23
# text = But the grandest appeared when the door of a side room opened; the little boy could remember what beautiful things he had seen there, but to-night everything shone in its brightest colors.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grandest	grand	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
4	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	ccomp	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	brightest	bright	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
36	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the grandest |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | past | the door of a side room |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **remember** | could | the little boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | beautiful things |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shine** | participle · passive |  | everything |  | door's brightest colors | night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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