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title: How graceful she was, how gentle, and fluttering, and pretty she loo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How graceful she was, how gentle, and fluttering, and pretty she looked. Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 91

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How graceful she was, how gentle, and fluttering, and pretty she looked.

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** be, flutter, look

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:9522`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:146:91
# text = How graceful she was, how gentle, and fluttering, and pretty she looked.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
7	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Miss |  |  |  |  | graceful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Miss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flutter** | gerund | Miss *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | Miss |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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