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title: It was stern, yet awakened confidence, and the eyes beamed with yout… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was stern, yet awakened confidence, and the eyes beamed with youthful radiance. Who acts: face, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Child in the Grave, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Child in the Grave, sentence 36

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It was stern, yet awakened confidence, and the eyes beamed with youthful radiance.

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**Who acts:** face, eyes · **What happens:** be, awaken, beam

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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 (face, 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:pg27200:17:36
# text = It was stern, yet awakened confidence, and the eyes beamed with youthful radiance.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	beamed	beam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | face |  |  |  |  | awakened confidence *obl*; stern *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **awaken** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **beam** | participle | the eyes |  |  |  |  | with youthful radiance | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with radiance=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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