--- title: He saw her again, as she once stood before him, a laughing, spirited… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He saw her again, as she once stood before him, a laughing, spirited child; many loving words, which she had spoken to him out of the fulness of her love, came like a ray of sunshine into his heart, and soon it was all sunshine as he thought of Babette. Who acts: Rudy, loss, heart. A sentence of «Fa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/17/) [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/) / [XIII. At the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/) / 17 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIII. At the Mill, sentence 17 He saw her again, as she once stood before him, a laughing, spirited child; many loving words, which she had spoken to him out of the fulness of her love, came like a ray of sunshine into his heart, and soon it was all sunshine as he thought of Babette. **Who acts:** Rudy, loss, heart · **What happens:** see, stand, laugh, child, speak, come · **To what, where:** loss, many loving words, Rudy, fulness, heart, sunshine · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIII. At 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 (Rudy, loss, heart), 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:pg27200:64:17 # text = He saw her again, as she once stood before him, a laughing, spirited child; many loving words, which she had spoken to him out of the fulness of her love, came like a ray of sunshine into his heart, and soon it was all sunshine as he thought of Babette. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 9 advmod _ _ 9 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 spirited spirited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 20 loving loving ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 29 out out ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fulness fulness NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 38 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 ray ray NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 48 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 52 advmod _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 50 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 52 det _ _ 52 sunshine sunshine NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 53 as as SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 Babette Babette PROPN NNP Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Rudy | loss | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 2 | **stand** | past | loss | many loving words | | | before Rudy | once *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | | 3 | **laugh** | gerund | | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **child** | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | many loving words | Rudy | the fulness of loss's love | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | past | loss *not said here* | | | Rudy's heart | | like a ray of sunshine | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into heart=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **is a** | past | heart | all sunshine | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Rudy | | | | | of Babette | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **love** | | loss | | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **ray** | | | sunshine | | | | | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/18/) - ↑ back to [XIII. At the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/64/)