--- title: Gloomy, quiet, absorbed in his own thoughts, he sat there through th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Gloomy, quiet, absorbed in his own thoughts, he sat there through the long day; he heard nothing of what was going on around him, and no man guessed what was passing in this human soul. Who acts: Gloomy, glance, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gloomy, glance, man), 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:pg27200:151:161 # text = Gloomy, quiet, absorbed in his own thoughts, he sat there through the long day; he heard nothing of what was going on around him, and no man guessed what was passing in this human soul. 1 Gloomy gloomy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 absorbed absorb VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 14 through through ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 20 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nmod _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 on on ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 around around ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 guessed guess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 passing pass VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 39 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **absorb** | participle | Gloomy *not said here* | | | glance's own thoughts | | | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal | | 2 | **sit** | past | glance | glance's own thoughts *not said here* | | there | day | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thought=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | past | Gloomy | nothing | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 4 | **go on** | past · progressive | | | | | | around glance | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around he=Location | | 5 | **guess** | past | no man | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pass** | past · progressive | | | | this human soul | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in soul=Location | | 7 | **think** | | glance | | | | | | nom thought «cognition 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. 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 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/160/) - next →: [sentence 162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/162/) - ↑ back to [The Psyche](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/151/)