--- title: There were tears in Emily's eyes, but in the young man's eyes shone… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There were tears in Emily's eyes, but in the young man's eyes shone courage and confidence; and the sun shone through the window, and cast his beams on the pair, and gave them his blessing. Who acts: tears, eyes, sun. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears, eyes, sun), 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:pg27200:147:143 # text = There were tears in Emily's eyes, but in the young man's eyes shone courage and confidence; and the sun shone through the window, and cast his beams on the pair, and gave them his blessing. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 Emily Emily PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 courage courage NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 confidence confidence NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 24 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 beams beam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 33 on on ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 blessing blessing NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | tears in Emily's eyes | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shine** | past | the young man's eyes | courage and confidence | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | | 3 | **shine** | participle | | the sun *not said here* | | the window | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location | | 4 | **cast** | past | the sun | sun's beams | | the pair | | | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent beam=Theme on pair=Destination | | 5 | **give** | past | the sun *not said here* | sun's blessing | beams *= beam* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient blessing=Theme | | 6 | **beam** | | sun | | | | | | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **bless** | | sun | | | | | | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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. 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