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title: I still see the bold smile on their lips, that so strongly and plain… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I still see the bold smile on their lips, that so strongly and plainly expressed joy or grief. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening, sentence 8

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I still see the bold smile on their lips, that so strongly and plainly expressed joy or grief.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, express · **To what, where:** bold smile, lips

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-eighth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:119:8
# text = I still see the bold smile on their lips, that so strongly and plainly expressed joy or grief.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | the bold smile |  | worms's lips | still |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smile=Stimulus |
| 2 | **express** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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