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title: While she was eating, the old woman combed her hair with a golden co… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: While she was eating, the old woman combed her hair with a golden comb, and her hair curled and shone with a lovely golden color around that sweet little face, which was so round and so like a rose. Who acts: Gerda, old woman, hair, sweet little face. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 42

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While she was eating, the old woman combed her hair with a golden comb, and her hair curled and shone with a lovely golden color around that sweet little face, which was so round and so like a rose.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, old woman, hair, sweet little face · **What happens:** eat, comb, curl, shine, be · **To what, where:** hair

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, old woman, hair, sweet little face), 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:pg1597:12:42
# text = While she was eating, the old woman combed her hair with a golden comb, and her hair curled and shone with a lovely golden color around that sweet little face, which was so round and so like a rose.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	combed	comb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	color	color	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	around	around	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
30	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	round	round	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	conj	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **comb** | past | the old woman | Gerda's hair |  |  |  | with a golden comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 3 | **curl** | participle | Gerda's hair |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | participle | Gerda's hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a lovely golden color around sweet little face | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with color=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | sweet little face |  |  |  |  | like a rose; round *property* | tree rules |

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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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