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title: He was as thin as a lath, wrinkled round the mouth and eyes, had lon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was as thin as a lath, wrinkled round the mouth and eyes, had long, bony fingers, bushy, gray eyebrows, and over his left eye hung a thick tuft of hair, which did not look handsome, but made his appearance very remarkable. Who acts: Anthony, thick tuft. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christia
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 31

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He was as thin as a lath, wrinkled round the mouth and eyes, had long, bony fingers, bushy, gray eyebrows, and over his left eye hung a thick tuft of hair, which did not look handsome, but made his appearance very remarkable.

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**Who acts:** Anthony, thick tuft · **What happens:** be, wrinkle, have, hang, not look, make · **To what, where:** long bony fingers, thick tuft, left eye, appearance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Anthony, thick tuft), 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:pg27200:128:31
# text = He was as thin as a lath, wrinkled round the mouth and eyes, had long, bony fingers, bushy, gray eyebrows, and over his left eye hung a thick tuft of hair, which did not look handsome, but made his appearance very remarkable.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lath	lath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	bony	bony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	bushy	bushy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
32	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tuft	tuft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
40	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	parataxis	_	_
43	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	very	very	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Anthony |  |  |  |  | as a lath; thin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wrinkle** | participle | Anthony *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round the mouth and eyes | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | long bony fingers and gray eyebrows |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 4 | **hang** | past |  | a thick tuft of hair |  | Anthony's left eye |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tuft=Theme over eye=Destination |
| 5 | **not** **look** | past · do-support | a thick tuft of hair |  |  |  |  | handsome *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **make** | past |  | Anthony's appearance |  |  |  | remarkable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product |

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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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