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title: The delicate folded hands and the noble face glorified in death by t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The delicate folded hands and the noble face glorified in death by the solemn, earnest look, which spoke of an entrance into a better world, were alone visible. Who acts: solemn earnest look, delicate folded hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 28

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The delicate folded hands and the noble face glorified in death by the solemn, earnest look, which spoke of an entrance into a better world, were alone visible.

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**Who acts:** solemn earnest look, delicate folded hands · **What happens:** fold, glorify, speak, be · **To what, where:** noble face, death · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (solemn earnest look, delicate folded hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4963`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:70:28
# text = The delicate folded hands and the noble face glorified in death by the solemn, earnest look, which spoke of an entrance into a better world, were alone visible.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	glorified	glorify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	earnest	earnest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **glorify** | participle |  | the noble face *not said here* |  | death |  | by the solemn earnest look | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the solemn earnest look |  |  |  |  | of a entrance into a better world | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the delicate folded hands and the noble face |  |  |  |  | alone, visible *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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