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title: She seemed to have become quite silent; but her eyes spoke, and that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She seemed to have become quite silent; but her eyes spoke, and that was quite enough for Rudy. Who acts: Babette, eyes, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 15

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She seemed to have become quite silent; but her eyes spoke, and that was quite enough for Rudy.

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**Who acts:** Babette, eyes, that · **What happens:** seem, become, speak, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, eyes, that), 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:pg27200:57:15
# text = She seemed to have become quite silent; but her eyes spoke, and that was quite enough for Rudy.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **become** | to-infinitive · perfect | Babette *not said here* |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Babette's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | for Rudy; enough *property* | tree rules |

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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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