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title: I kissed her pretty round shoulders, her dark eyes, and black shinin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I kissed her pretty round shoulders, her dark eyes, and black shining hair. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 12

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I kissed her pretty round shoulders, her dark eyes, and black shining hair.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** kiss, shine · **To what, where:** beam, hair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:110:12
# text = I kissed her pretty round shoulders, her dark eyes, and black shining hair.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | I | beam |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | I *not said here* | hair |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |

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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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