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title: Her skin was delicately fair, and beneath her long dark eye-lashes h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her skin was delicately fair, and beneath her long dark eye-lashes her laughing blue eyes shone with truth and purity. Who acts: skin, laughing blue eyes. 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
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 97

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Her skin was delicately fair, and beneath her long dark eye-lashes her laughing blue eyes shone with truth and purity.

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**Who acts:** skin, laughing blue eyes · **What happens:** be, laugh, shine · **To what, where:** long dark eye lashes

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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 (skin, laughing blue eyes), 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:pg27200:77:97
# text = Her skin was delicately fair, and beneath her long dark eye-lashes her laughing blue eyes shone with truth and purity.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	delicately	delicately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
10	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lashes	lash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	amod	_	_
17	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	purity	purity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | mermaid's skin |  |  |  |  | delicately, fair *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | participle | mermaid's laughing blue eyes |  |  | mermaid's long dark eye lashes |  | with truth and purity | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath lash=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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