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title: It vanished again, and dark clouds flew past: but still it was a gre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It vanished again, and dark clouds flew past: but still it was a greeting, a friendly good-night offered to me by the Moon. Who acts: beam, dark clouds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 15

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It vanished again, and dark clouds flew past: but still it was a greeting, a friendly good-night offered to me by the Moon.

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**Who acts:** beam, dark clouds · **What happens:** vanish, fly, be, offer · **To what, where:** greeting, friendly good night, me

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam, dark clouds), 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:pg27200:99:15
# text = It vanished again, and dark clouds flew past: but still it was a greeting, a friendly good-night offered to me by the Moon.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	past	past	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
23	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past | beam |  |  |  | again |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | dark clouds |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | beam | a greeting |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **offer** | participle |  | a friendly good night *not said here* | me |  |  | by the Moon | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to i=Goal |

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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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