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title: His eyes were as clear and his face was as radiant as sunshine; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His eyes were as clear and his face was as radiant as sunshine; and he held his mother in his arms, and she kissed his mouth, and wept as blissfully as any one can weep for joy; and he nodded at every old piece of furniture in the room, at the cupboard with the tea-cups, and at the flower-vase. Who 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 180

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His eyes were as clear and his face was as radiant as sunshine; and he held his mother in his arms, and she kissed his mouth, and wept as blissfully as any one can weep for joy; and he nodded at every old piece of furniture in the room, at the cupboard with the tea-cups, and at the flower-vase.

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**Who acts:** eyes, face, mother, one · **What happens:** be, hold, kiss, weep, nod · **To what, where:** mother, arms, mouth, old piece

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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 (eyes, face, mother, one), 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:pg27200:39:180
# text = His eyes were as clear and his face was as radiant as sunshine; and he held his mother in his arms, and she kissed his mouth, and wept as blissfully as any one can weep for joy; and he nodded at every old piece of furniture in the room, at the cupboard with the tea-cups, and at the flower-vase.
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	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	as	as	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	radiant	radiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	blissfully	blissfully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
47	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
60	tea	tea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	cups	cup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
65	at	at	ADP	IN	_	69	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
67	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	vase	vase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | son's eyes |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | son's face |  |  |  |  | as sunshine; radiant *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past | face | son's mother |  | son's arms |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mother=Theme in arm=Location |
| 4 | **kiss** | past | mother | son's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **weep** | past | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blissfully *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **weep** | can | any one |  |  |  |  | for joy | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **nod** | past | face |  |  | every old piece of furniture in the room |  | at the cupboard with the tea cups; at the flower vase | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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