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title: They were the gracious Lady Gyldenlowe (Marie Grubbe) and her maid. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They were the gracious Lady Gyldenlowe (Marie Grubbe) and her maid. Who acts: women. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 61

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They were the gracious Lady Gyldenlowe (Marie Grubbe) and her maid.

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**Who acts:** women · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** gracious Lady Gyldenlowe

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women), 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:pg27200:149:61
# text = They were the gracious Lady Gyldenlowe (Marie Grubbe) and her maid.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Gyldenlowe	Gyldenlowe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Marie	Marie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	Grubbe	Grubbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | women *= woman* | the gracious Lady Gyldenlowe and Aarhuus's maid |  |  |  |  | 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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