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title: The sunbeams--those blessing-bringing daughters of the sun--kissed h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sunbeams--those blessing-bringing daughters of the sun--kissed his cheeks. Who acts: sunbeams. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 45

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The sunbeams--those blessing-bringing daughters of the sun--kissed his cheeks.

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**Who acts:** sunbeams · **What happens:** bring, kiss · **To what, where:** cheeks

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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 (sunbeams), 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:pg27200:52:45
# text = The sunbeams--those blessing-bringing daughters of the sun--kissed his cheeks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sunbeams	sunbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
5	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | the sunbeams and that bringing daughters of the sun | Rudy's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Co-Agent |

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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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