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title: But when he gazed at the red hearts, their colors glowed more deeply… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he gazed at the red hearts, their colors glowed more deeply, even as flames, and his memory followed each in turn. Who acts: Denmark, colors, memory. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 24

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But when he gazed at the red hearts, their colors glowed more deeply, even as flames, and his memory followed each in turn.

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**Who acts:** Denmark, colors, memory · **What happens:** gaze, glow, follow · **To what, where:** each, turn

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Denmark, colors, memory), 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:pg27200:50:24
# text = But when he gazed at the red hearts, their colors glowed more deeply, even as flames, and his memory followed each in turn.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | Denmark |  |  |  |  | at the red hearts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at heart=Theme |
| 2 | **glow** | past | hearts's colors |  |  |  |  | as flames; deeply *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | Denmark's memory | each |  | turn |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme in turn=Trajectory |

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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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