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title: The bad, chained man looks at him, and a more gentle expression come… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bad, chained man looks at him, and a more gentle expression comes into his hard face. Who acts: chained man, more gentle expression. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 11

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The bad, chained man looks at him, and a more gentle expression comes into his hard face.

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**Who acts:** chained man, more gentle expression · **What happens:** chain, look, come · **To what, where:** hard face

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chained man, more gentle expression), 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:pg27200:186:11
# text = The bad, chained man looks at him, and a more gentle expression comes into his hard face.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | present | the chained man |  |  |  |  | at bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present | a more gentle expression |  |  | bird's hard face |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into face=Initial\_Location |

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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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