--- title: The pastor felt a kiss on his lips; a gleam of light surrounded him-… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The pastor felt a kiss on his lips; a gleam of light surrounded him--God's bright sun shone into the room, and his wife, alive, sweet and full of love, awoke him from a dream which God had sent him! Who acts: pastor, bright sun, wife. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastor, bright sun, wife), 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:pg27200:2:90 # text = The pastor felt a kiss on his lips; a gleam of light surrounded him--God's bright sun shone into the room, and his wife, alive, sweet and full of love, awoke him from a dream which God had sent him! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pastor pastor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kiss kiss NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 gleam gleam NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 's 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:agent _ _ 21 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 38 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 44 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 acl:relcl _ _ 47 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | the pastor | a kiss | | pastor's lips | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme on lip=Location | | 2 | **surround** | participle · passive | God's bright sun | a gleam of light | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **shine** | participle | | God's bright sun *not said here* | | the room | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **awake** | past | God's wife | pastor | | a dream | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | | 5 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | | a dream | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination he=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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/89/) - next →: [By the Almshouse Window, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/3/1/) - ↑ back to [A Story](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/2/)