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title: His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewd… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewdrops; and there came by a roebuck, and said, 'What ailest thee, that thou weepest blue and red tears?' Who acts: eyes, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 15

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His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewdrops; and there came by a roebuck, and said, 'What ailest thee, that thou weepest blue and red tears?'

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**Who acts:** eyes, that · **What happens:** be, glitter, come, say, ail, weep · **To what, where:** thee, blue tears · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, that), 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:pg27200:36:15
# text = His eyes were heavy with tears, and glittering with colors like dewdrops; and there came by a roebuck, and said, 'What ailest thee, that thou weepest blue and red tears?'
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|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	cop	_	_
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	dewdrops	dewdrop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	roebuck	roebuck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
27	ailest	ail	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
28	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
31	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	32	nsubj	_	_
32	weepest	weep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
36	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Olympus's eyes |  |  |  |  | with tears; heavy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glitter** | gerund | Olympus's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with colors like dewdrops | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | there |  | by a roebuck | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roebuck=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **ail** | present |  | thee |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **weep** | present | that | blue tears |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=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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