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title: While she was eating them the old woman combed out her long flaxen r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: While she was eating them the old woman combed out her long flaxen ringlets with a golden comb, and the glossy curls hung down on each side of the little round pleasant face, which looked fresh and blooming as a rose. " Who acts: Gerda, old woman, little round pleasant face. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 41

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While she was eating them the old woman combed out her long flaxen ringlets with a golden comb, and the glossy curls hung down on each side of the little round pleasant face, which looked fresh and blooming as a rose. "

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**Who acts:** Gerda, old woman, little round pleasant face · **What happens:** eat, comb out, hang down, look, bloom · **To what, where:** cherries, long flaxen ringlets, glossy curls, side

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, old woman, little round pleasant face), 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:pg27200:172:41
# text = While she was eating them the old woman combed out her long flaxen ringlets with a golden comb, and the glossy curls hung down on each side of the little round pleasant face, which looked fresh and blooming as a rose. "
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	combed	comb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	flaxen	flaxen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ringlets	ringlet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	glossy	glossy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
25	down	down	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
38	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · progressive | Gerda | cherries *= cherry* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 2 | **comb out** | past | the old woman | Gerda's long flaxen ringlets |  |  |  | with a golden comb | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringlet=Patient |
| 3 | **hang down** | participle · passive |  | the glossy curls |  | each side of the little round pleasant face |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on side=Destination |
| 4 | **look** | past | the little round pleasant face |  |  |  |  | fresh *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a rose | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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