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title: Heaven seemed to him to dwell in the sunshine of the church, and to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Heaven seemed to him to dwell in the sunshine of the church, and to beam upon him from the holy pictures and from the cross. Who acts: Heaven. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 179

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Heaven seemed to him to dwell in the sunshine of the church, and to beam upon him from the holy pictures and from the cross.

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**Who acts:** Heaven · **What happens:** seem, dwell, beam · **To what, where:** Brother, sunshine, holy pictures

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven), 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:pg27200:151:179
# text = Heaven seemed to him to dwell in the sunshine of the church, and to beam upon him from the holy pictures and from the cross.
1	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	beam	beam	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Heaven |  | Brother |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive | Heaven *not said here* |  |  | the sunshine of the church |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location |
| 3 | **beam** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the holy pictures and the cross |  | upon Brother | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |

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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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