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title: The hardened criminal casts an impatient look at the bright ray. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hardened criminal casts an impatient look at the bright ray. Who acts: hardened criminal. 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 8

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The hardened criminal casts an impatient look at the bright ray.

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**Who acts:** hardened criminal · **What happens:** harden, cast · **To what, where:** impatient look, bright ray

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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 (hardened criminal), 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:pg27200:186:8
# text = The hardened criminal casts an impatient look at the bright ray.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hardened	harden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	criminal	criminal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	casts	cast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cast** | present | the hardened criminal | a impatient look |  | the bright ray |  |  | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent look=Theme at ray=Destination |

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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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