--- title: The daughter sighed very gently; and how much there may be in a sigh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The daughter sighed very gently; and how much there may be in a sigh, or attributed to it! Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/38/) [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/) / [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/) / 38 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 38 The daughter sighed very gently; and how much there may be in a sigh, or attributed to it! **Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** sigh, be, attribute · **To what, where:** sigh This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg27200:7:38 # text = The daughter sighed very gently; and how much there may be in a sigh, or attributed to it! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 gently gently ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 8 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 9 much much ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 10 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 11 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sigh sigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 attributed attribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sigh** | past | the daughter | | | | | gently *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | | | | a sigh | | | tree rules | | 3 | **attribute** | participle | the daughter *not said here* | | sigh | | | | tree rules | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/39/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)