--- title: The princess smiled, and told him that time had engraved each event… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The princess smiled, and told him that time had engraved each event on a window-pane in the form of a picture; but, unlike other pictures, all that it represented lived and moved,--the leaves rustled, and the persons went and came, as in a looking-glass. Who acts: princess, picture, other pictures, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/180/) [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 Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/) / 180 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 180 The princess smiled, and told him that time had engraved each event on a window-pane in the form of a picture; but, unlike other pictures, all that it represented lived and moved,--the leaves rustled, and the persons went and came, as in a looking-glass. **Who acts:** princess, picture, other pictures, leaves, persons · **What happens:** smile, tell, engrave, represent, live, move · **To what, where:** prince, event, window pane, other pictures, picture · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, picture, other pictures, leaves), 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:pg27200:140:180 # text = The princess smiled, and told him that time had engraved each event on a window-pane in the form of a picture; but, unlike other pictures, all that it represented lived and moved,--the leaves rustled, and the persons went and came, as in a looking-glass. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 engraved engrave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 ccomp _ _ 12 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 event event NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 pane pane NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 26 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 unlike unlike ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 represented represent VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 rustled rustle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 persons person NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 nsubj _ _ 48 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 52 as as ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 53 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 55 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 57 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 56 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 55 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | past | the princess | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the princess *not said here* | | prince | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **engrave** | past · perfect | | each event | | a window pane in the form of a picture | time | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent event=Theme on pane=Destination | | 4 | **represent** | past | picture | other pictures *not said here* | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot picture=Theme | | 5 | **live** | past | other pictures | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **move** | past | other pictures *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **rustle** | past | the leaves | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **go** | past | the persons | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **come** | past | the persons *not said here* | | | | | as a looking glass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 11 | **form** | | | a picture | | | | | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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 179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/179/) - next →: [sentence 181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/181/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)