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title: We may conjecture that he did not suffer, but his dark eyes lost the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We may conjecture that he did not suffer, but his dark eyes lost their brightness, and looked like clouded glass. Who acts: We, Jurgen, dark 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 pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 5, sentence 73

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We may conjecture that he did not suffer, but his dark eyes lost their brightness, and looked like clouded glass.

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**Who acts:** We, Jurgen, dark eyes · **What happens:** conjecture, not suffer, lose, look, cloud · **To what, where:** brightness

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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 (We, Jurgen, dark 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:pg27200:162:73
# text = We may conjecture that he did not suffer, but his dark eyes lost their brightness, and looked like clouded glass.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	conjecture	conjecture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conjecture** | may | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **suffer** | past · do-support | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **lose** | past | Jurgen's dark eyes | eyes's brightness |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Eventuality |
| 4 | **look** | past | Jurgen's dark eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like clouded glass | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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