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title: Old Nanny had grown all of a sudden a young and pretty maiden; but h… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Nanny had grown all of a sudden a young and pretty maiden; but her robe was still the same green stuff with white flowers, which she had worn before. Who acts: Old Nanny, robe. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Elderbush, sentence 90

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Old Nanny had grown all of a sudden a young and pretty maiden; but her robe was still the same green stuff with white flowers, which she had worn before.

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**Who acts:** Old Nanny, robe · **What happens:** grow, be, wear · **To what, where:** all, same green stuff, white flowers

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Elderbush. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Nanny, robe), 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:pg1597:17:90
# text = Old Nanny had grown all of a sudden a young and pretty maiden; but her robe was still the same green stuff with white flowers, which she had worn before.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Nanny	Nanny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
32	before	before	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · perfect | Old Nanny | all |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Nanny's robe | the same green stuff |  |  | still | with white flowers | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past · perfect · passive |  | white flowers |  |  |  | before *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |

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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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