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title: A holy calm rested on her face, as if the earthly remains bore the i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A holy calm rested on her face, as if the earthly remains bore the impress of the truth that she now stood in the presence of God. Who acts: earthly remains, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 27

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A holy calm rested on her face, as if the earthly remains bore the impress of the truth that she now stood in the presence of God.

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**Who acts:** earthly remains, heart · **What happens:** rest, bear, stand, impress · **To what, where:** impress, truth, presence

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earthly remains, heart), 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:pg27200:49:27
# text = A holy calm rested on her face, as if the earthly remains bore the impress of the truth that she now stood in the presence of God.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
3	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	14	nsubj	_	_
14	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	impress	impress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | past | the earthly remains | the impress of the truth |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impress=Patient |
| 3 | **stand** | past | heart | the truth |  | the presence of God | now |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme in presence=Destination |
| 4 | **impress** |  |  | the truth |  |  |  |  | nom impress «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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