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title: A sweet perfume arose from it, while the open wound in the forehead… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A sweet perfume arose from it, while the open wound in the forehead of the slain priest, shone with the rays of a diamond. Who acts: sweet perfume. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 2

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A sweet perfume arose from it, while the open wound in the forehead of the slain priest, shone with the rays of a diamond.

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**Who acts:** sweet perfume · **What happens:** arise, shine, ray · **To what, where:** house, open wound, diamond

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet perfume), 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:pg27200:87:2
# text = A sweet perfume arose from it, while the open wound in the forehead of the slain priest, shone with the rays of a diamond.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	perfume	perfume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | a sweet perfume |  |  | house |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | participle |  | the open wound in the forehead of the slain priest *not said here* |  |  |  | with the rays of a diamond | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with ray=Theme |
| 3 | **ray** |  |  | a diamond |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon 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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