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title: People looked darkly, gloomily, and almost angrily at the sunshine o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: People looked darkly, gloomily, and almost angrily at the sunshine of spring, at the twittering birds, and all the cheerful green; the tongue could not even bear the old merry, popular songs, and they were laid in the coffin with so much that our heart held dear. Who acts: People, tongue. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 37

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People looked darkly, gloomily, and almost angrily at the sunshine of spring, at the twittering birds, and all the cheerful green; the tongue could not even bear the old merry, popular songs, and they were laid in the coffin with so much that our heart held dear.

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**Who acts:** People, tongue · **What happens:** look, not bear, lay, hold · **To what, where:** old merry popular songs, people, coffin, heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People, tongue), 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:pg27200:211:37
# text = People looked darkly, gloomily, and almost angrily at the sunshine of spring, at the twittering birds, and all the cheerful green; the tongue could not even bear the old merry, popular songs, and they were laid in the coffin with so much that our heart held dear.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	darkly	darkly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	gloomily	gloomily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	twittering	twittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
35	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	much	much	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
53	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | People |  |  |  |  | at the twittering birds; darkly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **bear** | could | the tongue | the old merry popular songs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | past · passive |  | people |  | the coffin |  | with our heart | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in coffin=Destination |
| 4 | **hold** | participle |  | our heart *not said here* |  |  |  | dear *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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