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title: About her dress, about her yellow curled hair, there was a fragrance… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: About her dress, about her yellow curled hair, there was a fragrance as of a fresh-blown rose; and to think that he had once divided his bread and butter with her, and that she had eaten it with enormous appetite, and nodded to him at every second mouthful! Who acts: Miss. A sentence of «Fairy Tales
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 93

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About her dress, about her yellow curled hair, there was a fragrance as of a fresh-blown rose; and to think that he had once divided his bread and butter with her, and that she had eaten it with enormous appetite, and nodded to him at every second mouthful!

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**Who acts:** Miss · **What happens:** curl, blow, think, divide, eat, be · **To what, where:** fragrance, butter, second mouthful

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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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**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:pg27200:146:93
# text = About her dress, about her yellow curled hair, there was a fragrance as of a fresh-blown rose; and to think that he had once divided his bread and butter with her, and that she had eaten it with enormous appetite, and nodded to him at every second mouthful!
1	About	about	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fragrance	fragrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	30	advmod	_	_
30	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	_
52	at	at	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	55	det	_	_
54	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	55	amod	_	_
55	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **curl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **divide** | past · perfect · passive |  | fragrance |  |  |  | with Miss; once *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** | past · perfect | Miss | butter |  |  |  | with enormous appetite | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  | fragrance | every second mouthful |  | nod *property* | 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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