--- title: He flung his arms round the beautiful being, and gazed into her wond… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He flung his arms round the beautiful being, and gazed into her wonderfully clear eyes,--only for a moment; but in that moment words cannot express the effect of his gaze. Who acts: Maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/49/) [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/) / [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/) / 49 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 49 He flung his arms round the beautiful being, and gazed into her wonderfully clear eyes,--only for a moment; but in that moment words cannot express the effect of his gaze. **Who acts:** Maiden · **What happens:** fling, gaze, not express, effect · **To what, where:** arms, clear eyes, effect, moment words, gaze This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden), 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:pg27200:63:49 # text = He flung his arms round the beautiful being, and gazed into her wonderfully clear eyes,--only for a moment; but in that moment words cannot express the effect of his gaze. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 round round ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obl _ _ 8 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 wonderfully wonderfully ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 24 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 nsubj _ _ 27 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 express express VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 effect effect NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 gaze gaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fling** | past | Maiden | Maiden's arms | | | | round the beautiful | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 2 | **gaze** | past | Maiden *not said here* | clear eyes | | | for a moment | into snow | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **express** | can | Maiden *not said here* | the effect of Maiden's gaze | | moment words | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme | | 4 | **effect** | | | Maiden's gaze | | | | | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | | 5 | **gaze** | | Maiden | | | | | | nom gaze «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/50/) - ↑ back to [XII. Evil Powers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/63/)