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title: Her raiment shone like the sun, and her serene countenance beamed wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her raiment shone like the sun, and her serene countenance beamed with happiness like that of a mother rejoicing over her child. Who acts: raiment, serene countenance, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 174

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Her raiment shone like the sun, and her serene countenance beamed with happiness like that of a mother rejoicing over her child.

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**Who acts:** raiment, serene countenance, mother · **What happens:** shine, beam, rejoice

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raiment, serene countenance, mother), 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:pg27200:140:174
# text = Her raiment shone like the sun, and her serene countenance beamed with happiness like that of a mother rejoicing over her child.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beamed	beam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	rejoicing	rejoice	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past | fairy's raiment |  |  |  |  | like the sun | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **beam** | participle | fairy's serene countenance |  |  |  |  | with happiness; like that | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with happiness=Theme |
| 3 | **rejoice** | gerund | a mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over fairy's child | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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