--- title: “There, thou hast thine eyes,” said Death; “I fished them up from th… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “There, thou hast thine eyes,” said Death; “I fished them up from the lake, they shone so bright; I knew not they were thine. Who acts: thou, Death, eyes. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/) / 75 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Story of a Mother, sentence 75 “There, thou hast thine eyes,” said Death; “I fished them up from the lake, they shone so bright; I knew not they were thine. **Who acts:** thou, Death, eyes · **What happens:** have, say, fish up, shine, not know, be · **To what, where:** eyes, lake, thine · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Death, eyes), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:21:75 # text = “There, thou hast thine eyes,” said Death; “I fished them up from the lake, they shone so bright; I knew not they were thine. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 5 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hast have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 6 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 fished fish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 30 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | thou | thine eyes | | there | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Death | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fish up** *in a quote* | past | Death | eyes *= eye* | | the lake | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **shine** *in a quote* | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | bright *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | past | Death | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | eyes *= eye* | thine | | | | | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/76/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Mother](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/21/)