--- title: Then her eye glanced across the paling--outside stood the great this… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then her eye glanced across the paling--outside stood the great thistle bush, with the reddish-blue, sturdy flowers; she saw them, she smiled, and asked the son of the house to pluck one for her. Who acts: eye. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's E --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Thistle's Experiences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/) / 11 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences, sentence 11 Then her eye glanced across the paling--outside stood the great thistle bush, with the reddish-blue, sturdy flowers; she saw them, she smiled, and asked the son of the house to pluck one for her. **Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** glance, stand, see, smile, ask, pluck · **To what, where:** great thistle bush, flowers, son, one This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thistle's Experiences. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:189:11 # text = Then her eye glanced across the paling--outside stood the great thistle bush, with the reddish-blue, sturdy flowers; she saw them, she smiled, and asked the son of the house to pluck one for her. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 glanced glance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 across across ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 paling paling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 outside outside ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 thistle thistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 bush bush NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 18 reddish reddish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 sturdy sturdy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 41 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 obj _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glance** | past | lady's eye | | | | then | across the paling | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across paling=Theme | | 2 | **stand** | past | lady's eye *not said here* | the great thistle bush | | | | with the blue sturdy flowers; outside *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bush=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | past | eye | flowers *= flower* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 4 | **smile** | past | eye | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | lady's eye *not said here* | | the son of the house | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent son=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **pluck** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | lady's eye *not said here* | one | | | | for lady | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent one=Theme for she=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/12/) - ↑ back to [The Thistle's Experiences](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/189/)