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title: A slight shadow passed over her pretty mouth as she thought of this,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A slight shadow passed over her pretty mouth as she thought of this, and she knit her brows; but the smile soon returned to her lip, and joy sparkled in her eyes, for this was the morning of the day on which she and Rudy were to be married, and the sun was shining brightly. Who acts: slight shadow, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 27

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A slight shadow passed over her pretty mouth as she thought of this, and she knit her brows; but the smile soon returned to her lip, and joy sparkled in her eyes, for this was the morning of the day on which she and Rudy were to be married, and the sun was shining brightly.

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**Who acts:** slight shadow, shadow, smile, joy, this, sun · **What happens:** pass, think, knit, return, sparkle, be · **To what, where:** pretty mouth, brows, eyes, joy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slight shadow, shadow, smile, joy), 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:pg27200:65:27
# text = A slight shadow passed over her pretty mouth as she thought of this, and she knit her brows; but the smile soon returned to her lip, and joy sparkled in her eyes, for this was the morning of the day on which she and Rudy were to be married, and the sun was shining brightly.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knit	knit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	brows	brow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
25	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	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	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	41	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	53	obl	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
52	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
59	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
60	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | a slight shadow |  |  | shadow's pretty mouth |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over mouth=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | shadow |  |  |  |  | of this | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **knit** | infinitive | shadow | shadow's brows |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Product |
| 4 | **return** | past | the smile |  |  |  |  | to shadow's lip *result*; soon *property* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to lip=Result |
| 5 | **sparkle** | participle | joy |  |  | shadow's eyes |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  | for the morning; day |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **marry** | past · passive | this *not said here* | joy |  |  | on the day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 8 | **shine** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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