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title: Among them was a beautiful little girl, who was terribly proud; but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Among them was a beautiful little girl, who was terribly proud; but this had been taught her by the servants, and not by her parents, who were far too sensible people. Who acts: descriptions, servants, parents. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 7

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Among them was a beautiful little girl, who was terribly proud; but this had been taught her by the servants, and not by her parents, who were far too sensible people.

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**Who acts:** descriptions, servants, parents · **What happens:** be, teach · **To what, where:** this, girl, sensible people

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (descriptions, servants, parents), 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:pg27200:18:7
# text = Among them was a beautiful little girl, who was terribly proud; but this had been taught her by the servants, and not by her parents, who were far too sensible people.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	35	advmod	_	_
33	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | descriptions *= description* |  |  |  |  | among a beautiful little girl | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | proud, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | the servants | this | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient she=Topic |
| 4 | **is a** | past | girl's parents and sensible people | sensible people |  |  |  | far *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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