--- title: At first he nearly lost his eyes in astonishment at the rubbish and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: At first he nearly lost his eyes in astonishment at the rubbish and mockery brought forward to represent the beautiful; but he kept his eyes, and soon found full employment for them. Who acts: good, mockery. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/82/) [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 Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/) / 82 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 82 At first he nearly lost his eyes in astonishment at the rubbish and mockery brought forward to represent the beautiful; but he kept his eyes, and soon found full employment for them. **Who acts:** good, mockery · **What happens:** lose, bring forward, represent, keep, find · **To what, where:** eyes, astonishment, beautiful, full employment This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good, mockery), 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:pg27200:143:82 # text = At first he nearly lost his eyes in astonishment at the rubbish and mockery brought forward to represent the beautiful; but he kept his eyes, and soon found full employment for them. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 rubbish rubbish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 mockery mockery NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 16 forward forward ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 represent represent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 employment employment NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past | good | good's eyes | | astonishment | | at the rubbish; nearly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | | 2 | **bring forward** | past | mockery | | | | | forward *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **represent** | to-infinitive | mockery *not said here* | the beautiful | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot beautiful=Theme | | 4 | **keep** | past | good | good's eyes | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | | 5 | **find** | past | good *not said here* | full employment | | | | for eyes *= eye*; soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent employment=Theme for they=Beneficiary | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/83/) - ↑ back to [The Philosopher's Stone](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/143/)