--- title: Kaela was silent; but her eyes shone, her lips smiled, every movemen… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Kaela was silent; but her eyes shone, her lips smiled, every movement was graceful,--in fact, she was beautiful; that cannot be repeated too often. Who acts: Kaela, eyes, lips, movement. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (Kaela, eyes, lips, movement), 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:pg27200:7:70 # text = Kaela was silent; but her eyes shone, her lips smiled, every movement was graceful,--in fact, she was beautiful; that cannot be repeated too often. 1 Kaela Kaela PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 movement movement NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 graceful graceful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 28 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 repeated repeat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 32 too too ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 often often ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Kaela | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shine** | past | Kaela's eyes | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **smile** | past | Kaela's lips | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past | every movement | | | fact | | graceful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | Kaela | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **repeat** | can · passive | | that | | | | often *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/69/) - next →: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/71/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)