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title: "Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes; surely with these you can enchain a man's heart. Who acts: you, Your. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 23

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"Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes; surely with these you can enchain a man's heart.

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**Who acts:** you, Your · **What happens:** enchain, form, walk · **To what, where:** heart

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Your), 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:pg27200:77:23
# text = "Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes; surely with these you can enchain a man's heart.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	expressive	expressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	enchain	enchain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchain** *in a quote* | can | you | a man's heart |  |  |  | surely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** *in a quote* |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 3 | **walk** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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