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title: How vividly were represented to him, in a glittering tear that rolle… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How vividly were represented to him, in a glittering tear that rolled down his cheek, two children at play--a boy and a girl. Who acts: glittering tear. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 59

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How vividly were represented to him, in a glittering tear that rolled down his cheek, two children at play--a boy and a girl.

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**Who acts:** glittering tear · **What happens:** represent, glitter, roll down · **To what, where:** Denmark, glittering tear, cheek, play

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glittering tear), 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:pg27200:128:59
# text = How vividly were represented to him, in a glittering tear that rolled down his cheek, two children at play--a boy and a girl.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	vividly	vividly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | past · passive |  |  | Denmark | a glittering tear |  | vividly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: to he=Attribute |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roll down** | past | a glittering tear | Denmark's cheek and two children |  | play and a boy and a girl |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cheek=Theme at play=Trajectory |

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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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