--- title: But the youngest child in the room, a boy, with large, earnest eyes,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: But the youngest child in the room, a boy, with large, earnest eyes, mounted upon a chair behind the window curtains, and looked out into the yard, where the moon was pouring a flood of light on the old gravestone,--the stone that had always appeared to him so dull and flat, but which lay there now --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/130/41/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Old Grave-stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/130/) / 41 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 41 But the youngest child in the room, a boy, with large, earnest eyes, mounted upon a chair behind the window curtains, and looked out into the yard, where the moon was pouring a flood of light on the old gravestone,--the stone that had always appeared to him so dull and flat, but which lay there now like a great leaf out of a book of history. **Who acts:** youngest child, moon, light · **What happens:** mount, look out, pour, appear, lie, flood · **To what, where:** large earnest eyes, chair, flood, old gravestone, stone, moon This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest child, moon, light), 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:pg27200:130:41 # text = But the youngest child in the room, a boy, with large, earnest eyes, mounted upon a chair behind the window curtains, and looked out into the yard, where the moon was pouring a flood of light on the old gravestone,--the stone that had always appeared to him so dull and flat, but which lay there now like a great leaf out of a book of history. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 earnest earn ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 16 amod _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 19 upon upon ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 behind behind ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 curtains curtain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 29 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 38 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 pouring pour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 gravestone gravestone NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 -- -- PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 appos _ _ 51 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 54 advmod _ _ 54 appeared appear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl:relcl _ _ 55 to to ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ _ 57 so so ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ _ 58 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 xcomp _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 but but CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 63 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 64 nsubj _ _ 64 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 65 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 64 advmod _ _ 66 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 64 advmod _ _ 67 like like ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 68 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 70 det _ _ 69 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 70 amod _ _ 70 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 71 out out ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 72 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 75 of of ADP IN _ 76 case _ _ 76 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 77 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mount** | participle | | large earnest eyes *not said here* | | a chair behind the window curtains | | | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon chair=Destination | | 2 | **look out** | past | the youngest child in the room and a boy and large earnest eyes | | | | | into the yard | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pour** | past · progressive | the moon | a flood of light | | the old gravestone | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Patient | | 4 | **appear** | past · perfect · passive | | the stone | moon | | | always, dull *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **lie** | past | | | | a book of history; there | now | like a great leaf | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out book=Location | | 6 | **flood** | | light | | | | | | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/130/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/130/42/) - ↑ back to [The Old Grave-stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/130/)