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title: It gleamed in her head, gleamed in joy, beamed brightly in her longi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It gleamed in her head, gleamed in joy, beamed brightly in her longing. Who acts: desire, Mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 164

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It gleamed in her head, gleamed in joy, beamed brightly in her longing.

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**Who acts:** desire, Mother · **What happens:** gleam, beam, long · **To what, where:** head, joy, longing

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desire, 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:pg27200:194:164
# text = It gleamed in her head, gleamed in joy, beamed brightly in her longing.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	beamed	beam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | past | desire |  |  | Mother's head |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in head=Location |
| 2 | **gleam** | participle |  |  |  | joy |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in joy=Location |
| 3 | **beam** | participle |  |  |  | Mother's longing |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in longing=Location |
| 4 | **long** |  | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | nom longing «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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