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title: And how handsome the young prince looked, as he pressed the hands of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And how handsome the young prince looked, as he pressed the hands of all present and smiled at them, while the music resounded through the clear night air. Who acts: prince, music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 85

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And how handsome the young prince looked, as he pressed the hands of all present and smiled at them, while the music resounded through the clear night air.

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**Who acts:** prince, music · **What happens:** look, press, smile, resound · **To what, where:** hands, clear night air

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, music), 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:pg27200:75:85
# text = And how handsome the young prince looked, as he pressed the hands of all present and smiled at them, while the music resounded through the clear night air.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
3	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	resounded	resound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **press** | past | prince | the hands of all present |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **smile** | past | prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at hands *= hand* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **resound** | past | the music |  |  | the clear night air |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |

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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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