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title: Such a form of female loveliness he had never before beheld--yet sta… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a form of female loveliness he had never before beheld--yet stay: he had seen it, painted by Raphael, painted as a Psyche, in one of the Roman palaces. Who acts: water, form. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche, with its dependency tree and the p
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 32

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Such a form of female loveliness he had never before beheld--yet stay: he had seen it, painted by Raphael, painted as a Psyche, in one of the Roman palaces.

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**Who acts:** water, form · **What happens:** behold, stay, see, paint, form · **To what, where:** female loveliness, loveliness

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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 (water, form), 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:pg27200:151:32
# text = Such a form of female loveliness he had never before beheld--yet stay: he had seen it, painted by Raphael, painted as a Psyche, in one of the Roman palaces.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Raphael	Raphael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Psyche	psyche	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behold** | past · perfect | water | female loveliness *not said here* |  |  |  | before *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loveliness=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stay** | infinitive | such form of female loveliness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past · perfect | water | loveliness |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **paint** | participle | water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Raphael | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | as a Psyche | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | female loveliness |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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