--- title: He removed the lid as he spoke, and a pair of yellow eyes, encircled… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He removed the lid as he spoke, and a pair of yellow eyes, encircled by a black ring, stared forth with a wild, fiery glance, that seemed ready to burn and destroy all that came in its way. Who acts: Rudy, pair, wild fiery glance, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/59/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat H…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/59/) / 2 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell, sentence 2 He removed the lid as he spoke, and a pair of yellow eyes, encircled by a black ring, stared forth with a wild, fiery glance, that seemed ready to burn and destroy all that came in its way. **Who acts:** Rudy, pair, wild fiery glance, that · **What happens:** remove, speak, encircle, stare, seem, burn · **To what, where:** lid, yellow eyes, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VIII. What Fresh News the Parlor-cat Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, pair, wild fiery glance, that), 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:pg27200:59:2 # text = He removed the lid as he spoke, and a pair of yellow eyes, encircled by a black ring, stared forth with a wild, fiery glance, that seemed ready to burn and destroy all that came in its way. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 lid lid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 pair pair NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 encircled encircle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 22 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 forth forth ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 fiery fiery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 glance glance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 32 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 33 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 destroy destroy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 38 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 40 det:predet _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 nsubj _ _ 40 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | past | Rudy | the lid | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Rudy | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **encircle** | participle | | yellow eyes *not said here* | | | | by a black ring | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **stare** | past | a pair of yellow eyes | | | | | with a wild fiery glance; forth *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** | past | a wild fiery glance | | | | | ready *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **burn** | to-infinitive | a wild fiery glance *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **destroy** | infinitive | a wild fiery glance *not said here* | | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **come** | past | that | | | pair's way | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location | 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. 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