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title: The daughters of the sunbeam kissed him; they wished to thaw, and me… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The daughters of the sunbeam kissed him; they wished to thaw, and melt, and obliterate the ice kiss which the queenly maiden of the glaciers had given him as he lay in the lap of his dead mother, in the deep crevasse of ice from which he had been so wonderfully rescued. Who acts: daughters, Maiden. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 105

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The daughters of the sunbeam kissed him; they wished to thaw, and melt, and obliterate the ice kiss which the queenly maiden of the glaciers had given him as he lay in the lap of his dead mother, in the deep crevasse of ice from which he had been so wonderfully rescued.

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**Who acts:** daughters, Maiden · **What happens:** kiss, wish, thaw, melt, obliterate, give · **To what, where:** sun, ice kiss, queenly maiden, lap, Maiden, ice

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, Maiden), 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:pg27200:52:105
# text = The daughters of the sunbeam kissed him; they wished to thaw, and melt, and obliterate the ice kiss which the queenly maiden of the glaciers had given him as he lay in the lap of his dead mother, in the deep crevasse of ice from which he had been so wonderfully rescued.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	thaw	thaw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	melt	melt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	obliterate	obliterate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	glaciers	glacier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	crevasse	crevasse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
49	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	obl	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
53	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	56	aux:pass	_	_
54	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
55	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | the daughters of the sunbeam | sun |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **wish** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **thaw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **melt** | infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **obliterate** | infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | the ice kiss |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Patient |
| 6 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | the queenly maiden of the glaciers | sun |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lie** | past | Maiden |  |  | the lap of sun's dead mother |  | in the deep crevasse of ice | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location |
| 8 | **rescue** | past · perfect · passive |  | Maiden |  | ice |  | wonderfully *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from which=Source |

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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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