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title: It was late at night, but as the moon shone through the windows, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was late at night, but as the moon shone through the windows, they had light at a cheap rate. Who acts: game, windows. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 11

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It was late at night, but as the moon shone through the windows, they had light at a cheap rate.

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**Who acts:** game, windows · **What happens:** be, shine, have · **To what, where:** moon, windows, light, cheap rate

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (game, windows), 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:pg27200:90:11
# text = It was late at night, but as the moon shone through the windows, they had light at a cheap rate.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
11	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	cheap	cheap	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rate	rate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | game |  |  |  | night | late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  | the moon *not said here* |  | the windows |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | windows *= window* | light |  | a cheap rate |  | as the moon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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