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title: Her hot tears glittered like pearls on the regal velvet and diamonds… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her hot tears glittered like pearls on the regal velvet and diamonds, while all who saw her were wishing they could be queens. Who acts: hot tears, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 4

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Her hot tears glittered like pearls on the regal velvet and diamonds, while all who saw her were wishing they could be queens.

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**Who acts:** hot tears, tears · **What happens:** glitter, see, wish, be · **To what, where:** hot tears, regal velvet, Eliza, queens

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot tears, tears), 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:pg27200:210:4
# text = Her hot tears glittered like pearls on the regal velvet and diamonds, while all who saw her were wishing they could be queens.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
4	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	regal	regal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	conj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	wishing	wish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | participle |  | Eliza's hot tears *not said here* |  | the regal velvet and diamonds |  | like pearls | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on velvet=Location |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | Eliza |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wish** | past · progressive | Eliza's hot tears |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **is a** | could | tears *= tear* | queens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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