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title: Then the miserable form trembled; it was as if these words had touch… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the miserable form trembled; it was as if these words had touched an invisible bond between body and soul, for great tears stood in the eyes. Who acts: great tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 79

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Then the miserable form trembled; it was as if these words had touched an invisible bond between body and soul, for great tears stood in the eyes.

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**Who acts:** great tears · **What happens:** tremble, touch, stand · **To what, where:** miserable form, form, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (great tears), 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:pg27200:85:79
# text = Then the miserable form trembled; it was as if these words had touched an invisible bond between body and soul, for great tears stood in the eyes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bond	bond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | participle · passive |  | the miserable form |  |  | then |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | form |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer bond=Result |
| 3 | **stand** | past | great tears |  |  | the eyes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in eye=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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