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title: The boy was dazzled by so much glitter; for the walls were gleaming… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy was dazzled by so much glitter; for the walls were gleaming with bright colors, all appeared living reality. Who acts: much glitter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 28

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The boy was dazzled by so much glitter; for the walls were gleaming with bright colors, all appeared living reality.

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**Who acts:** much glitter · **What happens:** dazzle, gleam, appear, live · **To what, where:** boy, reality

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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 (much glitter), 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:pg27200:89:28
# text = The boy was dazzled by so much glitter; for the walls were gleaming with bright colors, all appeared living reality.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	glitter	glitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	xcomp	_	_
22	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dazzle** | past · passive | much glitter | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **gleam** | past · progressive | much glitter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the walls; with bright colors | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | past | much glitter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **live** | gerund | much glitter *not said here* | reality |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme reality=Location |

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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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