--- title: She opened her wonderfully beautiful eyes, and spoke a few words, bu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She opened her wonderfully beautiful eyes, and spoke a few words, but nobody understood her.--And lo! as a reward for the sorrow and suffering she had undergone, she held in her arms a new-born babe. Who acts: lady, nobody, reward. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, nobody, reward), 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:pg27200:158:112 # text = She opened her wonderfully beautiful eyes, and spoke a few words, but nobody understood her.--And lo! as a reward for the sorrow and suffering she had undergone, she held in her arms a new-born babe. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 16 nsubj _ _ 16 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 And and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 21 lo lo INTJ UH _ 36 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 23 as as ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 reward reward NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 suffering suffering NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 undergone undergo VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 44 babe babe NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **open** | past | lady | lady's beautiful eyes | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | a few words | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **understand** | past | nobody | lady | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 4 | **undergo** | past · perfect · passive | a reward for the sorrow and suffering *not said here* | lady | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **hold** | past | lady | | | lady's arms a born babe | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arm=Location | | 6 | **bear** | participle | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/113/) - ↑ back to [A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/158/)