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title: The evening twilight faded and my light shone doubly vivid upon the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The evening twilight faded and my light shone doubly vivid upon the rich velvet that covered the throne of France. Who acts: evening twilight, light, rich velvet, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 14

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The evening twilight faded and my light shone doubly vivid upon the rich velvet that covered the throne of France.

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**Who acts:** evening twilight, light, rich velvet, my · **What happens:** fade, shine, cover, light · **To what, where:** throne

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening twilight, light, rich velvet, my), 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:pg27200:96:14
# text = The evening twilight faded and my light shone doubly vivid upon the rich velvet that covered the throne of France.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	faded	fade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	doubly	doubly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | past | the evening twilight |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **shine** | past | my light |  |  |  |  | vivid *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | past | the rich velvet | the throne of France |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Destination |
| 4 | **light** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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