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title: "My beams have kissed the wreath of immortelles on his grave, and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "My beams have kissed the wreath of immortelles on his grave, and this night they kissed the forehead of the old grandame, while in a dream the picture floated before her which thou mayest draw--the poor boy on the throne of France." Who acts: beams, My. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifth Evening, sentence 30

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"My beams have kissed the wreath of immortelles on his grave, and this night they kissed the forehead of the old grandame, while in a dream the picture floated before her which thou mayest draw--the poor boy on the throne of France."

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**Who acts:** beams, My · **What happens:** kiss, float, draw, beam · **To what, where:** beams, forehead, dream, picture

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beams, My), 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:pg27200:96:30
# text = "My beams have kissed the wreath of immortelles on his grave, and this night they kissed the forehead of the old grandame, while in a dream the picture floated before her which thou mayest draw--the poor boy on the throne of France."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	immortelles	immortelle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	grandame	grandame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
35	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
37	mayest	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | My beams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kiss** *in a quote* | past | beams *= beam* | the forehead of the old grandame |  | a dream | night |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **float** *in a quote* | participle |  | the picture and the poor boy on the throne of France *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** *in a quote* | may |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **beam** *in a quote* |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=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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