--- title: Perhaps of the beautiful Christ-child, dressed in gold and silver, w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Perhaps of the beautiful Christ-child, dressed in gold and silver, which was down below in the chapel, where the silver candlesticks gleamed so bright, and where her little friends sung the hymns in which she also could join? Who acts: gold, silver candlesticks, little friends, beam. 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C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, silver candlesticks, little friends, beam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:110:17 # text = Perhaps of the beautiful Christ-child, dressed in gold and silver, which was down below in the chapel, where the silver candlesticks gleamed so bright, and where her little friends sung the hymns in which she also could join? 1 Perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 Christ Christ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 below below ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chapel chapel NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 silver silver ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 candlesticks candlestick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 gleamed gleam VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 conj _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 9 conj _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 36 sung sing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 acl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 hymns hymn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 41 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 42 also also ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 join join VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | participle | | the beautiful Christ child *not said here* | | gold and silver and the chapel | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | gold and silver and the chapel | | | the chapel | | below *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **gleam** | participle | the silver candlesticks | | | | | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | beam's little friends *not said here* | the hymns | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme | | 5 | **join** | could | beam | | | | | in the hymns | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/110/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/110/18/) - ↑ back to [Nineteenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/110/)