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title: The guardian angel of the house leaned against the head of the bed;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The guardian angel of the house leaned against the head of the bed; while over the child was spread, as it were, a net of shining stars, and each star was a pearl of happiness. Who acts: guardian angel, angel, net, star. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The L
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 6

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The guardian angel of the house leaned against the head of the bed; while over the child was spread, as it were, a net of shining stars, and each star was a pearl of happiness.

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**Who acts:** guardian angel, angel, net, star · **What happens:** learn, spread, be, shine · **To what, where:** net, stars, pearl

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guardian angel, angel, net, star), 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:pg27200:70:6
# text = The guardian angel of the house leaned against the head of the bed; while over the child was spread, as it were, a net of shining stars, and each star was a pearl of happiness.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	guardian	guardian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	against	against	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
30	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | the guardian angel of the house |  |  |  |  | against the head of the bed | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spread** | past · passive | the guardian angel of the house *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over the child | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: over child=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | angel | a net |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | a net *not said here* | stars |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent star=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | each star | a pearl |  |  |  | of happiness | 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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