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title: When a child, her head must have resembled one of Raphael's cherubs;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When a child, her head must have resembled one of Raphael's cherubs; it was still an angelic face, with its white locks of silvery hair. Who acts: head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 18

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When a child, her head must have resembled one of Raphael's cherubs; it was still an angelic face, with its white locks of silvery hair.

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**Who acts:** head · **What happens:** resemble, be · **To what, where:** child, angelic face

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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:pg27200:61:18
# text = When a child, her head must have resembled one of Raphael's cherubs; it was still an angelic face, with its white locks of silvery hair.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
9	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Raphael	Raphael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	cherubs	cherub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	angelic	angelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | must · perfect · passive |  | a child |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | head | a angelic face and head's white locks of silvery hair |  |  | still |  | 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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