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title: How full of meaning that glance had been, as she leaned over him, ho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How full of meaning that glance had been, as she leaned over him, holding in hers the pale hand which he had no longer strength to raise! Who acts: word, grave. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 32

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How full of meaning that glance had been, as she leaned over him, holding in hers the pale hand which he had no longer strength to raise!

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**Who acts:** word, grave · **What happens:** learn, hold, have, raise · **To what, where:** pale hand

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, grave), 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:pg27200:17:32
# text = How full of meaning that glance had been, as she leaned over him, holding in hers the pale hand which he had no longer strength to raise!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	det	_	_
6	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	no	no	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | word |  |  |  |  | over grave | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | word *not said here* | the pale hand |  |  |  | in word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in her=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | grave | the pale hand |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **raise** | to-infinitive | grave *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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