--- title: "'I saw the Turkish angel myself," said one; "he had eyes like glitt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "'I saw the Turkish angel myself," said one; "he had eyes like glittering stars, and a head like foaming water." Who acts: I, one, angel, head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/101/) [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 Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/) / 101 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 101 "'I saw the Turkish angel myself," said one; "he had eyes like glittering stars, and a head like foaming water." **Who acts:** I, one, angel, head · **What happens:** see, say, have, glitter, foam · **To what, where:** Turkish angel, eyes, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, angel, head), 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:pg27200:35:101 # text = "'I saw the Turkish angel myself," said one; "he had eyes like glittering stars, and a head like foaming water." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Turkish Turkish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 amod _ _ 20 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 25 like like SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 26 foaming foam VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 acl _ _ 27 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | past | I | the Turkish angel myself | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | angel | eyes | | | | like glittering stars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 4 | **glitter** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **foam** *in a quote* | gerund | a head *not said here* | water | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location water=Theme | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/102/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Trunk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/)