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title: The little girl had brown eyes and black hair, and was clever and co… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little girl had brown eyes and black hair, and was clever and courageous; she was the mayor's daughter, Molly. Who acts: little girl, girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 61

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The little girl had brown eyes and black hair, and was clever and courageous; she was the mayor's daughter, Molly.

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**Who acts:** little girl, girl · **What happens:** have, be · **To what, where:** brown eyes, daughter

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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 (little girl, girl), 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:pg27200:128:61
# text = The little girl had brown eyes and black hair, and was clever and courageous; she was the mayor's daughter, Molly.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the little girl | brown eyes and black hair |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the little girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | clever *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | the little girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | girl | the mayor's daughter |  |  |  |  | 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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