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title: Great tears came into her shining dark eyes; and with the same gentl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Great tears came into her shining dark eyes; and with the same gentle piety with which she had once listened to the gospel while sitting on the form at school, she felt its grandeur now, and the tears rolled down her cheeks. Who acts: Great tears, girl, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Chri
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 57

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Great tears came into her shining dark eyes; and with the same gentle piety with which she had once listened to the gospel while sitting on the form at school, she felt its grandeur now, and the tears rolled down her cheeks.

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**Who acts:** Great tears, girl, tears · **What happens:** come, shine, listen, sit, feel, roll down · **To what, where:** shining dark eyes, form, grandeur, cheeks

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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 (Great tears, girl, tears), 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:pg27200:67:57
# text = Great tears came into her shining dark eyes; and with the same gentle piety with which she had once listened to the gospel while sitting on the form at school, she felt its grandeur now, and the tears rolled down her cheeks.
1	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	piety	piety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
21	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	gospel	gospel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
43	down	down	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Great tears |  |  | girl's shining dark eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | past · perfect | girl |  |  |  |  | with the same gentle piety; to the gospel; once *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to gospel=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  | the form |  | at school | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on form=Location |
| 5 | **feel** | past | girl | form's grandeur |  |  | now |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandeur=Theme |
| 6 | **roll down** | past | the tears | girl's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cheek=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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