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title: I cannot any longer be an idle spectator of those beaming eyes, whic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I cannot any longer be an idle spectator of those beaming eyes, which express such a deep and earnest longing for the words of the gospel," said he. Who acts: I, idle spectator, deep earnest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 11

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I cannot any longer be an idle spectator of those beaming eyes, which express such a deep and earnest longing for the words of the gospel," said he.

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**Who acts:** I, idle spectator, deep earnest · **What happens:** not any, be, beam, express, long, say · **To what, where:** idle spectator, gospel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, idle spectator, deep earnest), 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:pg27200:67:11
# text = I cannot any longer be an idle spectator of those beaming eyes, which express such a deep and earnest longing for the words of the gospel," said he.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	any	any	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	spectator	spectator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	beaming	beam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	express	express	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	earnest	earn	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	nsubj	_	_
22	longing	long	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gospel	gospel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **any** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive |  | a idle spectator |  |  |  | of that beaming eyes; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **beam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **express** | present | a idle spectator |  |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **long** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for the words of the gospel | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for word=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | such deep earnest |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **word** |  |  | the gospel |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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