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title: Their hair gleamed golden in the sunshine, lovely to behold; but the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Their hair gleamed golden in the sunshine, lovely to behold; but the real sunshine was more beautiful still. Who acts: real sunshine. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 4

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Their hair gleamed golden in the sunshine, lovely to behold; but the real sunshine was more beautiful still.

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**Who acts:** real sunshine · **What happens:** gleam, be · **To what, where:** hair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (real sunshine), 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:pg27200:39:4
# text = Their hair gleamed golden in the sunshine, lovely to behold; but the real sunshine was more beautiful still.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | participle |  | canvas's hair *not said here* |  |  |  | golden *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the real sunshine |  |  |  | still | beautiful *property* | 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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