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title: And full of life was this young stranger; his eyes sparkled, his gla… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And full of life was this young stranger; his eyes sparkled, his glance was steady, and his arm sure, therefore he always hit the mark. Who acts: young stranger, eyes, glance, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 133

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And full of life was this young stranger; his eyes sparkled, his glance was steady, and his arm sure, therefore he always hit the mark.

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**Who acts:** young stranger, eyes, glance, Rudy · **What happens:** be, sparkle, hit, glance · **To what, where:** mark

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young stranger, eyes, glance, Rudy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4243`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:55:133
# text = And full of life was this young stranger; his eyes sparkled, his glance was steady, and his arm sure, therefore he always hit the mark.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	steady	steady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	27	advmod	_	_
27	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this young stranger |  |  |  |  | of life; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sparkle** | past | Rudy's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Rudy's glance |  |  |  |  | steady *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hit** | past | Rudy | the mark |  |  |  | always, therefore *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mark=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **glance** |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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