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title: Two frogs were sitting on the linen, and their bright eyes actually… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two frogs were sitting on the linen, and their bright eyes actually glistened with pleasure. Who acts: Two frogs, bright eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 46

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Two frogs were sitting on the linen, and their bright eyes actually glistened with pleasure.

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**Who acts:** Two frogs, bright eyes · **What happens:** sit, glisten · **To what, where:** linen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two frogs, bright 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:pg27200:8:46
# text = Two frogs were sitting on the linen, and their bright eyes actually glistened with pleasure.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	glistened	glisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | Two frogs |  |  | the linen |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on linen=Location |
| 2 | **glisten** | participle | frogs's bright eyes |  |  |  |  | with pleasure; actually *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pleasure=Theme |

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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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