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title: Rudy's eyes glistened, and his thoughts flew at once in a different… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy's eyes glistened, and his thoughts flew at once in a different direction; but he was not near enough to take a sure aim. Who acts: eyes, thoughts, gentian. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 7

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Rudy's eyes glistened, and his thoughts flew at once in a different direction; but he was not near enough to take a sure aim.

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**Who acts:** eyes, thoughts, gentian · **What happens:** glisten, fly, not be, take, think · **To what, where:** different direction, sure aim

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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 (eyes, thoughts, gentian), 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:pg27200:63:7
# text = Rudy's eyes glistened, and his thoughts flew at once in a different direction; but he was not near enough to take a sure aim.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	near	near	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glisten** | participle | Rudy's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | past | gentian's thoughts |  |  | a different direction |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | gentian |  |  |  |  | enough, near *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | Rudy's eyes *not said here* | a sure aim |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme |
| 5 | **think** |  | gentian |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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