--- title: And when she really had the little child in her arms, and held it up… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And when she really had the little child in her arms, and held it up to its father, then it was like one of the angels in the church to behold, with hair like gold--the gleam of the setting sun was upon it. Who acts: child, sun, gleam. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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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 (child, sun, gleam), 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:pg27200:39:8 # text = And when she really had the little child in her arms, and held it up to its father, then it was like one of the angels in the church to behold, with hair like gold--the gleam of the setting sun was upon it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 behold behold INTJ UH _ 31 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 gleam gleam NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 setting setting NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 46 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 upon upon ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | child | the little child | | child's arms | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 2 | **hold up** | past | | sun | | | | to sun's father; with hair like gold and the gleam | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with hair=Instrument | | 3 | **is** | past | sun | | | | then | like one; of the angels in the church | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | past | the gleam *not said here* | | | | | upon sun; of the setting sun | tree rules | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/9/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/)