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title: The horse-hair was drawn tightly round her leg--as tightly as if the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The horse-hair was drawn tightly round her leg--as tightly as if the latter were to be cut off; she was in great pain and terror. Who acts: hair. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 66

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The horse-hair was drawn tightly round her leg--as tightly as if the latter were to be cut off; she was in great pain and terror.

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**Who acts:** hair · **What happens:** draw, be, cut off · **To what, where:** horse hair, great pain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair), 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:pg27200:124:66
# text = The horse-hair was drawn tightly round her leg--as tightly as if the latter were to be cut off; she was in great pain and terror.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	off	off	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive |  | the horse hair |  |  |  | round hair's leg; tightly *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past |  |  |  |  |  | latter, tightly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut off** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
| 4 | **is** | past | hair |  |  | great pain and terror |  |  | tree rules |

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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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