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title: She was young and beautiful, and a train of lovely maidens followed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was young and beautiful, and a train of lovely maidens followed her, each wearing a bright star in her hair. Who acts: countenance, train, each. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 175

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She was young and beautiful, and a train of lovely maidens followed her, each wearing a bright star in her hair.

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**Who acts:** countenance, train, each · **What happens:** be, follow, wear · **To what, where:** countenance, bright star, hair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (countenance, train, each), 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:pg27200:140:175
# text = She was young and beautiful, and a train of lovely maidens followed her, each wearing a bright star in her hair.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | countenance |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | countenance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | past | a train of lovely maidens | countenance |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | gerund | each | a bright star |  | countenance's hair |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent star=Source |

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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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