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title: His eyes brightened, and the words he uttered came with hesitation f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His eyes brightened, and the words he uttered came with hesitation from his lips, but from the deepest recesses of his heart: "Christina, if you have not become too grand, and if you can be contented to live in my mother's house as my wife, we will be married some day. Who acts: eyes, Ib, words, you
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 113

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His eyes brightened, and the words he uttered came with hesitation from his lips, but from the deepest recesses of his heart: "Christina, if you have not become too grand, and if you can be contented to live in my mother's house as my wife, we will be married some day.

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**Who acts:** eyes, Ib, words, you · **What happens:** brighten, utter, come, not become, content, live · **To what, where:** words, Christina, you, house, deepest recesses, heart · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Ib, words, you), 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:pg27200:51:113
# text = His eyes brightened, and the words he uttered came with hesitation from his lips, but from the deepest recesses of his heart: "Christina, if you have not become too grand, and if you can be contented to live in my mother's house as my wife, we will be married some day.
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	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brightened	brighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	recesses	recess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	advcl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	's	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
50	as	as	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
54	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
58	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	59	det	_	_
59	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brighten** | participle | Ib's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Ib | the words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **come** | past | the words |  |  |  |  | with hesitation from Ib's lips | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **become** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · perfect | you | Christina *not said here* |  |  |  | grand *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient christina=Result |
| 5 | **content** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **live** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | my mother's house |  | as my wife | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
| 7 | **marry** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | Christina |  | the deepest recesses of Ib's heart | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **recess** |  |  | Ib's heart |  |  |  |  | nom recess «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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