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title: At each moment her beauty became more revealed, and her expressive e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At each moment her beauty became more revealed, and her expressive eyes appealed more directly to the heart than the songs of the slaves. Who acts: beauty, expressive eyes, slaves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 51

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At each moment her beauty became more revealed, and her expressive eyes appealed more directly to the heart than the songs of the slaves.

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**Who acts:** beauty, expressive eyes, slaves · **What happens:** become, reveal, appeal, sing

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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 (beauty, expressive eyes, slaves), 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:pg27200:77:51
# text = At each moment her beauty became more revealed, and her expressive eyes appealed more directly to the heart than the songs of the slaves.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	expressive	expressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	appealed	appeal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | mermaid's beauty |  |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reveal** | participle | mermaid's beauty *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **appeal** | past | mermaid's expressive eyes |  |  |  |  | to the heart; than the songs of the slaves; directly *property* | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to heart=Experiencer |
| 4 | **sing** |  | the slaves |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication 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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