Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 8

And when she really had the little child in her arms, and held it up to its father, then it was like one of the angels in the church to behold, with hair like gold--the gleam of the setting sun was upon it.

Who acts: child, sun, gleam · What happens: have, hold up, be · To what, where: little child, arms, sun

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, sun, gleam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 had	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 had	advmod
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 held	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 arms	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 arms	nmod:poss
11	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 held	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	14 held	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 one	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 one	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 held	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 angels	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 angels	det
28	angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 church	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 church	det
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 angels	nmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 behold	case
33	behold	behold	INTJ	_	31 church	discourse
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 hair	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 hair	case
36	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
37	like	like	ADP	_	38 gold	case
38	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hair	nmod
39	--	--	PUNCT	_	41 gleam	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 gleam	det
41	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 hair	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 sun	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 sun	det
44	setting	setting	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sun	compound
45	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 it	obl
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 it	cop
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 gleam	acl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	child	the little child	child's arms			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	hold up	past		sun			to sun's father; with hair like gold and the gleam	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Theme with hair=Instrument
3	is	past	sun			then	like one; of the angels in the church	tree rules
4	is	past	the gleam not said here				upon sun; of the setting sun	tree rules

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.

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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