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title: This verse Jurgen sang with so much feeling that his eyes beamed, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This verse Jurgen sang with so much feeling that his eyes beamed, and they were black and sparkling since his infancy. Who acts: verse, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 19

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This verse Jurgen sang with so much feeling that his eyes beamed, and they were black and sparkling since his infancy.

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**Who acts:** verse, eyes · **What happens:** sing, feel, beam, be, sparkle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (verse, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:162:19
# text = This verse Jurgen sang with so much feeling that his eyes beamed, and they were black and sparkling since his infancy.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beamed	beam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sparkling	sparkle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
20	since	since	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	infancy	infancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | this verse |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | this verse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **beam** | past | Jurgen's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | black *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sparkle** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* |  |  |  | since Jurgen's infancy |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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