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title: The lovely Columbine was indeed kind and cordial to him; but she pre… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The lovely Columbine was indeed kind and cordial to him; but she preferred to marry the Harlequin. Who acts: lovely Columbine, audience. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fifteenth Evening, sentence 10

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The lovely Columbine was indeed kind and cordial to him; but she preferred to marry the Harlequin.

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**Who acts:** lovely Columbine, audience · **What happens:** be, prefer, marry · **To what, where:** public, Harlequin

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fifteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely Columbine, audience), 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:pg27200:106:10
# text = The lovely Columbine was indeed kind and cordial to him; but she preferred to marry the Harlequin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	cordial	cordial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	preferred	prefer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Harlequin	Harlequin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lovely Columbine |  |  |  |  | indeed, kind *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the lovely Columbine *not said here* |  | public |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **prefer** | past | audience |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | audience *not said here* | the Harlequin |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harlequin=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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