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title: Her eyes were glazing, and her heart breaking; but so it would have… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eyes were glazing, and her heart breaking; but so it would have been, even had the sun not shone that morning on Anna Dorothea. Who acts: eyes, Anna. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 201

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Her eyes were glazing, and her heart breaking; but so it would have been, even had the sun not shone that morning on Anna Dorothea.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Anna · **What happens:** glaze, not shine · **To what, where:** heart breaking, breaking

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Anna), 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:pg27200:212:201
# text = Her eyes were glazing, and her heart breaking; but so it would have been, even had the sun not shone that morning on Anna Dorothea.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	glazing	glaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	breaking	breaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl:agent	_	_
28	Dorothea	Dorothea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glaze** | past · progressive | splendor's eyes | splendor's heart breaking |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **shine** | would · perfect · passive | Anna | breaking |  |  | morning |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=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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