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title: Two charming Bacchantes were they; certainly not Psyches--not delica… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Two charming Bacchantes were they; certainly not Psyches--not delicate, beautiful roses, but fresh, hearty, glowing carnations. Who acts: Two charming Bacchantes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 125

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Two charming Bacchantes were they; certainly not Psyches--not delicate, beautiful roses, but fresh, hearty, glowing carnations.

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**Who acts:** Two charming Bacchantes · **What happens:** not be, be, glow · **To what, where:** Psyches, carnations

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two charming Bacchantes), 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:pg27200:151:125
# text = Two charming Bacchantes were they; certainly not Psyches--not delicate, beautiful roses, but fresh, hearty, glowing carnations.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Bacchantes	bacchante	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	Psyches	psyche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	glowing	glow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
23	carnations	carnation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past | Two charming Bacchantes | Psyches |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Two charming Bacchantes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glow** | gerund | Two charming Bacchantes *not said here* | carnations |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent carnation=Theme |

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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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