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title: My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from th… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing; but I am extremely sorry for the garter--I mean the girdle--that went into the water-tub. Who acts: own hair comb, widow, I, girdle. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 60

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My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing; but I am extremely sorry for the garter--I mean the girdle--that went into the water-tub.

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**Who acts:** own hair comb, widow, I, girdle · **What happens:** be, lose, live, see, mean, go · **To what, where:** love, teeth, heart ache, much, girdle, water tub

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (own hair comb, widow, I, girdle), 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:pg1597:22:60
# text = My own hair-comb was in love with me, she lost all her teeth from the heart-ache; yes, I have lived to see much of that sort of thing; but I am extremely sorry for the garter--I mean the girdle--that went into the water-tub.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ache	ache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	27	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
39	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
40	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	garter	garter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
52	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | My own hair comb |  |  | love |  | with me | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | widow | widow's teeth |  | the heart ache |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme from ache=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **live** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | much of that sort of thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for the garter; extremely, sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | I | the girdle |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girdle=Topic |
| 7 | **go** | past | the girdle |  |  | the water tub |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into tub=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **sort** |  |  | thing |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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