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title: She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his h
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 115

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She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even; that he knew the number of square miles there were in the different countries, and how many inhabitants they contained; and she smiled while he spoke.

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**Who acts:** queen, lovely countenance, eyes, countenance, many inhabitants · **What happens:** be, not fancy, appear, sit, beckon, not fear · **To what, where:** countenance, window, queen, all, head, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, lovely countenance, eyes, countenance), 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:pg1597:11:115
# text = She was very beautiful; a more clever, or a more lovely countenance he could not fancy to himself; and she no longer appeared of ice as before, when she sat outside the window, and beckoned to him; in his eyes she was perfect, he did not fear her at all, and told her that he could calculate in his head and with fractions, even; that he knew the number of square miles there were in the different countries, and how many inhabitants they contained; and she smiled while he spoke.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
8	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	no	no	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	before	before	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	34	advmod	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
35	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	beckoned	beckon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
49	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
61	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	iobj	_	_
62	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	65	mark	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	nsubj	_	_
64	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	65	aux	_	_
65	calculate	calculate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	xcomp	_	_
66	in	in	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
67	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	68	nmod:poss	_	_
68	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	obl	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
70	with	with	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	fractions	fraction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	68	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
73	even	even	ADV	RB	_	65	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	77	punct	_	_
75	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	77	mark	_	_
76	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	77	nsubj	_	_
77	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
78	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	79	det	_	_
79	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	77	obj	_	_
80	of	of	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
81	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	82	amod	_	_
82	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	79	nmod	_	_
83	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	84	expl	_	_
84	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	82	acl:relcl	_	_
85	in	in	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
86	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	88	det	_	_
87	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	88	amod	_	_
88	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	84	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
90	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	95	cc	_	_
91	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	92	advmod	_	_
92	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	93	amod	_	_
93	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	95	nsubj	_	_
94	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	95	nsubj	_	_
95	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	77	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	99	punct	_	_
97	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	99	cc	_	_
98	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	99	nsubj	_	_
99	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
100	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	102	mark	_	_
101	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	102	nsubj	_	_
102	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	99	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
103	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **fancy** | could | a lovely countenance |  | countenance |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **appear** | past | queen |  |  |  |  | of ice; long *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | past | queen |  |  | the window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside window=Location |
| 6 | **beckon** | participle | queen *not said here* |  | countenance |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | past | countenance's eyes |  |  |  |  | perfect *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **fear** | past · do-support | countenance | queen |  | all |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 9 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | queen |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 10 | **calculate** *not said to happen* | could | countenance |  |  | countenance's head and fractions |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **know** | past | countenance | the number of square miles |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus |
| 12 | **contain** | past | many inhabitants |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 13 | **smile** | past | queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 14 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | countenance |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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