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title: The fairy threw off her dazzling attire, bent back the boughs, and i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fairy threw off her dazzling attire, bent back the boughs, and in another moment was hidden among them. Who acts: fairy, dazzling attire. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 234

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The fairy threw off her dazzling attire, bent back the boughs, and in another moment was hidden among them.

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**Who acts:** fairy, dazzling attire · **What happens:** throw off, bend, hide · **To what, where:** dazzling attire, boughs

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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 (fairy, dazzling attire), 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:pg27200:140:234
# text = The fairy threw off her dazzling attire, bent back the boughs, and in another moment was hidden among them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dazzling	dazzling	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw off** | past | the fairy | fairy's dazzling attire |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attire=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | participle | fairy's dazzling attire *not said here* | the boughs |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hide** | past · passive | the fairy *not said here* |  |  |  | moment | among boughs *= bough* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: among they=Location |

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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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