--- title: They showed the existence of deep feeling and a human heart, and the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They showed the existence of deep feeling and a human heart, and the beauteous eyes overflowed with tears, weeping precious drops that lightened the heart. Who acts: eyes, beauteous eyes, precious drops, deep feeling. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mars --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/) / 73 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 73 They showed the existence of deep feeling and a human heart, and the beauteous eyes overflowed with tears, weeping precious drops that lightened the heart. **Who acts:** eyes, beauteous eyes, precious drops, deep feeling · **What happens:** show, overflow, weep, lighten, exist · **To what, where:** existence, precious drops, heart This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, beauteous eyes, precious drops, deep feeling), 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:pg27200:86:73 # text = They showed the existence of deep feeling and a human heart, and the beauteous eyes overflowed with tears, weeping precious drops that lightened the heart. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 feeling feeling NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 beauteous beauteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 overflowed overflow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 weeping weep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 precious precious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 lightened lighten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | eyes *= eye* | the existence of deep feeling and a human heart | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent existence=Recipient | | 2 | **overflow** | past | the beauteous eyes | | | | | with tears | tree rules | | 3 | **weep** | gerund | the beauteous eyes *not said here* | precious drops | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | | 4 | **lighten** | past | precious drops | the heart | | | | | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 5 | **exist** | | deep feeling and a human heart | | | | | | nom existence «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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/74/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/86/)