--- title: It seemed too much for him to bear; and this happened not once, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: It seemed too much for him to bear; and this happened not once, but many times; and at last one day he seized the delicate fingers and the white hand, and kissed it, and looked into her great brown eyes. Who acts: It, heart, this. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, heart, this), 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:pg27200:39:133 # text = It seemed too much for him to bear; and this happened not once, but many times; and at last one day he seized the delicate fingers and the white hand, and kissed it, and looked into her great brown eyes. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 too too ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ _ 5 for for SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nsubj _ _ 12 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 14 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 delicate delicate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 43 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **seem** | past | It | much | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Attribute | | 2 | **bear** | to-infinitive | heart | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **happen** | past | this | | | | time | once *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **seize** | past | heart | the delicate fingers and the white hand | | | day | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | | 5 | **kiss** | past | heart *not said here* | hand | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | | 6 | **look** | past | | | | | | into Charlotte's great brown eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into eye=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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/134/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Treasure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/39/)