--- title: He lifted his head, and saw that the bright gleaming was not the ref… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He lifted his head, and saw that the bright gleaming was not the reflection of the glittering snow, but the dazzling brightness of the pinions of a mighty angel, into whose beaming face he was gazing. Who acts: soul, bright gleaming. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soul, bright gleaming), 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:pg27200:205:17 # text = He lifted his head, and saw that the bright gleaming was not the reflection of the glittering snow, but the dazzling brightness of the pinions of a mighty angel, into whose beaming face he was gazing. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 gleaming gleaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 reflection reflection NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 ccomp _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 dazzling dazzling ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 brightness brightness NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pinions pinion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 beaming beaming NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 gazing gaze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past | soul | soul's head | | | | the dazzling brightness of the pinions of a mighty angel *obl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | soul *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **is a** | past | the bright gleaming | the reflection | | | | of the glittering snow | tree rules | | 4 | **glitter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **gaze** | past · progressive | soul | | | | | into beaming face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/205/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/205/18/) - ↑ back to [In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/205/)