---
title: All the eyes were too eagerly seeking for this resting-place, to not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All the eyes were too eagerly seeking for this resting-place, to notice the beauties of nature. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/33/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/) / 33

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 33

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
All the eyes were too eagerly seeking for this resting-place, to notice the beauties of nature.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** seek, notice · **To what, where:** beauties

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:45:33
# text = All the eyes were too eagerly seeking for this resting-place, to notice the beauties of nature.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
10	resting	resting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	notice	notice	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beauties	beauty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past · progressive | all eyes |  |  |  |  | for this resting place; eagerly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for place=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive |  | the beauties of nature |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/32/)
- next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/34/)
- ↑ back to [The Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/)