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title: When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love flutter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love fluttered like a cherub toward heaven, the round Moon hung, half hidden among the dark cypresses, in the lucid air. Who acts: Romeo, round Moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighth Evening, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighth Evening, sentence 7

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When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love fluttered like a cherub toward heaven, the round Moon hung, half hidden among the dark cypresses, in the lucid air.

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**Who acts:** Romeo, round Moon · **What happens:** climb, flutter, hang, hide, promise · **To what, where:** balcony, true love, lucid air

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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 (Romeo, round Moon), 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:pg27200:99:7
# text = When Romeo climbed the balcony, and the promise of true love fluttered like a cherub toward heaven, the round Moon hung, half hidden among the dark cypresses, in the lucid air.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Romeo	Romeo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cherub	cherub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	26	advmod	_	_
26	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cypresses	cypress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	lucid	lucid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | Romeo | the balcony |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location balcony=Theme |
| 2 | **flutter** | participle |  | true love *not said here* |  |  |  | like a cherub toward heaven | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the round Moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hide** | participle | the round Moon *not said here* |  |  | the lucid air |  | among the dark cypresses; half *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among cypress=Location |
| 5 | **promise** |  |  | true love |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=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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