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title: When I could watch thy infant glee, Or kiss away a pearly tear. ' — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When I could watch thy infant glee, Or kiss away a pearly tear. ' Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 53

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When I could watch thy infant glee, Or kiss away a pearly tear. '

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** watch, kiss away · **To what, where:** infant glee, pearly tear

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. 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:pg27200:134:53
# text = When I could watch thy infant glee, Or kiss away a pearly tear. '
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	pearly	pearly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | could | I | thy infant glee |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glee=Theme |
| 2 | **kiss away** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a pearly tear |  |  |  | away *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Co-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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