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title: The golden crown on her head glittered like the stars of heaven, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The golden crown on her head glittered like the stars of heaven, and her mantle was formed of thousands of butterflies' wings sewn together. Who acts: golden crown. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree an
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 41

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The golden crown on her head glittered like the stars of heaven, and her mantle was formed of thousands of butterflies' wings sewn together.

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**Who acts:** golden crown · **What happens:** glitter, form, sew · **To what, where:** mantle, wings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden crown), 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:pg27200:197:41
# text = The golden crown on her head glittered like the stars of heaven, and her mantle was formed of thousands of butterflies' wings sewn together.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	butterflies	butterfly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	'	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | the golden crown on princess's head |  |  |  |  | like the stars of heaven | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **form** | past · passive |  | princess's mantle |  |  |  | of thousands of butterflies's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **sew** | participle |  | butterflies's wings *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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