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title: Then we glance at the pearl of Sorrow, in which are concealed the wi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then we glance at the pearl of Sorrow, in which are concealed the wings which shall carry us away to eternal happiness. Who acts: we, wings, Sorrow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 47

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Then we glance at the pearl of Sorrow, in which are concealed the wings which shall carry us away to eternal happiness.

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**Who acts:** we, wings, Sorrow · **What happens:** glance, conceal, carry, pearl · **To what, where:** wings, us

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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 (we, wings, Sorrow), 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:pg27200:70:47
# text = Then we glance at the pearl of Sorrow, in which are concealed the wings which shall carry us away to eternal happiness.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	glance	glance	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Sorrow	Sorrow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	eternal	eternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glance** | present | we |  |  |  | then | at the pearl of Sorrow | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at pearl=Theme |
| 2 | **conceal** | present · passive | we *not said here* | the wings |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: wing=Patient in which=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | shall | the wings | us |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **pearl** |  | Sorrow |  |  |  |  |  | nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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