--- title: Her eyes had a most piteous expression; she was without a voice, exc… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Her eyes had a most piteous expression; she was without a voice, excepting a hollow, croaking sound, like the smothered sobs of a dreaming child. Who acts: eyes, transformation, voice, dreaming child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (eyes, transformation, voice, dreaming child), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:85:33 # text = Her eyes had a most piteous expression; she was without a voice, excepting a hollow, croaking sound, like the smothered sobs of a dreaming child. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 6 advmod _ _ 6 piteous piteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 expression expression NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 excepting except VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 hollow hollow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 croaking croak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 conj _ _ 20 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 smothered smother VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 amod _ _ 25 sobs sob NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 dreaming dream VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | transformation's eyes | a piteous expression | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | transformation | | | | | without a voice | tree rules | | 3 | **except** | gerund | a voice *not said here* | a hollow | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **croak** | gerund | a voice *not said here* | sound | | | | like the smothered sobs of a dreaming child | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | | 5 | **smother** | participle | | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **dream** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sob** | | a dreaming child | | | | | | nom sob «state intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/85/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/85/34/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/85/)