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title: The cloth which covered his face was lifted up; the dead man's face… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The cloth which covered his face was lifted up; the dead man's face expressed peace--a sunbeam fell upon it. Who acts: cloth, face, sunbeam. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dumb Book, sentence 14

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The cloth which covered his face was lifted up; the dead man's face expressed peace--a sunbeam fell upon it.

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**Who acts:** cloth, face, sunbeam · **What happens:** cover, lift up, express, fall · **To what, where:** face, cloth, peace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dumb Book. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloth, face, sunbeam), 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:pg27200:29:14
# text = The cloth which covered his face was lifted up; the dead man's face expressed peace--a sunbeam fell upon it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | the cloth | student's face |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme face=Destination |
| 2 | **lift up** | past · passive |  | the cloth |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **express** | past | the dead man's face | peace |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme |
| 4 | **fall** | past | a sunbeam |  |  | face |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location |

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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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