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title: Here everything was bright, and the boy knelt down by the first tomb… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here everything was bright, and the boy knelt down by the first tomb on his right, the grave of Michael Angelo, and sobbed as if his heart would break. Who acts: everything, boy, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 81

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Here everything was bright, and the boy knelt down by the first tomb on his right, the grave of Michael Angelo, and sobbed as if his heart would break.

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**Who acts:** everything, boy, heart · **What happens:** be, kneel down, sob, break · **To what, where:** right grave

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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 (everything, boy, heart), 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:pg27200:89:81
# text = Here everything was bright, and the boy knelt down by the first tomb on his right, the grave of Michael Angelo, and sobbed as if his heart would break.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
17	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Angelo	Angelo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | everything |  |  | here |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kneel down** | past | the boy |  |  | boy's right grave of Michael |  | by the first tomb | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tomb=Location |
| 3 | **sob** | participle | the boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | boy's heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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