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title: The knighly beard curled crisply about the chin; but there were tear… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The knighly beard curled crisply about the chin; but there were tears in the man's eyes, for he had been hissed off, and indeed with reason. Who acts: knighly beard, tears. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Eighteenth Evening, sentence 5

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The knighly beard curled crisply about the chin; but there were tears in the man's eyes, for he had been hissed off, and indeed with reason.

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**Who acts:** knighly beard, tears · **What happens:** curl, be, hiss off · **To what, where:** beard

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Eighteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knighly beard, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:7110`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:109:5
# text = The knighly beard curled crisply about the chin; but there were tears in the man's eyes, for he had been hissed off, and indeed with reason.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	knighly	knighly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	curled	curl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	crisply	crisply	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl** | past | the knighly beard |  |  |  |  | about the chin; crisply *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | tears in the man's eyes |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hiss off** | past · perfect · passive |  | beard |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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