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title: The little maiden bent down and gently kissed the delicate leaves. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little maiden bent down and gently kissed the delicate leaves. Who acts: little maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 44

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The little maiden bent down and gently kissed the delicate leaves.

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**Who acts:** little maiden · **What happens:** bend down, kiss · **To what, where:** little maiden, delicate leaves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little maiden), 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:pg27200:141:44
# text = The little maiden bent down and gently kissed the delicate leaves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
7	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend down** | participle |  | the little maiden *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kiss** | past | the little maiden | the delicate leaves |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Co-Agent |

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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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