--- title: He strove to show them how the beauty of the mind could be displayed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He strove to show them how the beauty of the mind could be displayed in the outward form, and that it was the sculptor's task to seize upon that beauty of expression, and produce it in his works. Who acts: smile, beauty. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beaut --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/77/) [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/) / 77 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 77 He strove to show them how the beauty of the mind could be displayed in the outward form, and that it was the sculptor's task to seize upon that beauty of expression, and produce it in his works. **Who acts:** smile, beauty · **What happens:** strive, show, display, be, seize, produce · **To what, where:** copies, beauty, outward form, task, works · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (smile, beauty), 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:pg27200:7:77 # text = He strove to show them how the beauty of the mind could be displayed in the outward form, and that it was the sculptor's task to seize upon that beauty of expression, and produce it in his works. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 strove strive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 displayed display VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 outward outward ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 sculptor sculptor NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 's 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 task task NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 32 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 produce produce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 works work NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **strive** | past | smile | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | smile *not said here* | copies *= copy* | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **display** | could · passive | | the beauty of the mind | | the outward form | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **is a** | past | beauty | the sculptor's task | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **seize** | to-infinitive | smile *not said here* | | | | | upon that beauty of expression | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **produce** | infinitive | smile *not said here* | beauty | | smile's works | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result | | 7 | **work** | | smile | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/78/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)