--- title: Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in the garden; surely they had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been done to it; they understood its joy. Who acts: idea, flowers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/24/) [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 Daisy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/) / 24 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 24 Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in the garden; surely they had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been done to it; they understood its joy. **Who acts:** idea, flowers · **What happens:** look over, witness, do, understand, please, joy · **To what, where:** pleasure, honour, idea, joy This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (idea, flowers), 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:pg27200:20:24 # text = Half ashamed, yet glad at heart, it looked over to the other flowers in the garden; surely they had witnessed its pleasure and the honour that had been done to it; they understood its joy. 1 Half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 2 advmod _ _ 2 ashamed ashamed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 over over ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 20 surely surely ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 witnessed witness VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 24 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 honour honour NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 obj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look over** | past | idea | | | | | to the other flowers in the garden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to flower=Theme | | 2 | **witness** | past · perfect | flowers *= flower* | idea's pleasure and the honour | | | | surely *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Beneficiary | | 3 | **do** | past · perfect · passive | | the honour | idea | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: that=Eventuality | | 4 | **understand** | past | flowers *= flower* | idea's joy | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer joy=Stimulus | | 5 | **please** | | idea | | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **joy** | | idea | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/25/) - ↑ back to [The Daisy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/)