--- title: The maiden's eyes shone with an unearthly power, which obliged you t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The maiden's eyes shone with an unearthly power, which obliged you to look into them; they were strange eyes,--clear, deep, and unfathomable. Who acts: eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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. **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:pg27200:56:11 # text = The maiden's eyes shone with an unearthly power, which obliged you to look into them; they were strange eyes,--clear, deep, and unfathomable. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 5 shone shine VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 unearthly unearthly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 obliged oblige VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 -- -- PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 unfathomable unfathomable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shine** | participle | | the maiden's eyes *not said here* | | | | with a unearthly power | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with power=Theme | | 2 | **oblige** | past | the maiden's eyes | you | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the maiden's eyes *not said here* | | | | | into eyes *= eye* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into they=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | eyes *= eye* | strange eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/12/) - ↑ back to [V. on the Way Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/)