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title: The Christian priest held the cross aloft, and it glittered like gol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Christian priest held the cross aloft, and it glittered like gold, while from his lips sounded pious prayers. Who acts: Christian priest, priest, lips. 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 pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5, sentence 8

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The Christian priest held the cross aloft, and it glittered like gold, while from his lips sounded pious prayers.

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**Who acts:** Christian priest, priest, lips · **What happens:** hold, glitter, sound · **To what, where:** cross, pious prayers

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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 (Christian priest, priest, lips), 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:pg27200:87:8
# text = The Christian priest held the cross aloft, and it glittered like gold, while from his lips sounded pious prayers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	prayers	prayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the Christian priest | the cross |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme |
| 2 | **glitter** | past | priest |  |  |  |  | like gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | past | perfume's lips | pious prayers |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prayer=Theme |

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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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