--- title: Eliza had to pass close by them, and they fixed their wicked glances… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Eliza had to pass close by them, and they fixed their wicked glances upon her, but she prayed silently, gathered the burning nettles, and carried them home with her to the castle. Who acts: Eliza, creatures. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza, creatures), 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:pg27200:209:125 # text = Eliza had to pass close by them, and they fixed their wicked glances upon her, but she prayed silently, gathered the burning nettles, and carried them home with her to the castle. 1 Eliza Eliza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 fixed fix VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 glances glance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 upon upon ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 prayed pray VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 silently silently ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 burning burning NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 nettles nettle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 home home ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | Eliza | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive | Eliza *not said here* | | | | | by creatures *= creature*; close *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=Location | | 3 | **fix** | past | creatures *= creature* | creatures's wicked glances | | | | upon Eliza | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent glance=Patient | | 4 | **pray** | past | Eliza | | | | | silently *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **gather** | past | Eliza *not said here* | the burning nettles | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nettle=Theme | | 6 | **carry** | past | Eliza *not said here* | creatures *= creature* | | the castle | | with Eliza; home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to castle=Destination | | 7 | **glance** | | creatures *= creature* | | | | | | nom glance «act intransitive»: 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 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/126/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/209/)