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title: “His tame sweetheart is a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted ro… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “His tame sweetheart is a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted round her leg; she laments most piteously, but it's all mere talk and stuff! Who acts: tame sweetheart, widow, sweetheart. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5, with its dependency tree and 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 5, sentence 66

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“His tame sweetheart is a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted round her leg; she laments most piteously, but it's all mere talk and stuff!

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**Who acts:** tame sweetheart, widow, sweetheart · **What happens:** be, wear, worst, lament · **To what, where:** widow, bit, mere talk

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tame sweetheart, widow, sweetheart), 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:pg1597:15:66
# text = “His tame sweetheart is a widow, and wears a bit of black worsted round her leg; she laments most piteously, but it's all mere talk and stuff!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
15	worsted	worst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	laments	lament	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	piteously	piteously	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Kay's tame sweetheart | a widow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** *in a quote* | present |  | a bit of black |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source |
| 3 | **worst** *in a quote* | participle |  | a bit of black *not said here* |  |  |  | round widow's leg | tree rules |
| 4 | **lament** *in a quote* | present | widow |  |  |  |  | piteously *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | sweetheart | mere talk and stuff |  |  |  |  | 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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