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title: She told me that Phantaesus was her very dear friend, that he was as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She told me that Phantaesus was her very dear friend, that he was as beautiful as the god of love, that he remained often for many hours with her under the leafy boughs of the tree which then rustled and waved more than ever over them both. Who acts: dryad, Phantaesus, tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tal
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell, sentence 46

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She told me that Phantaesus was her very dear friend, that he was as beautiful as the god of love, that he remained often for many hours with her under the leafy boughs of the tree which then rustled and waved more than ever over them both.

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**Who acts:** dryad, Phantaesus, tree · **What happens:** tell, be, remain, rustle, wave · **To what, where:** me, dear friend, leafy boughs, more · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Second Mouse Had to Tell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dryad, Phantaesus, tree), 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:pg27200:180:46
# text = She told me that Phantaesus was her very dear friend, that he was as beautiful as the god of love, that he remained often for many hours with her under the leafy boughs of the tree which then rustled and waved more than ever over them both.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	Phantaesus	Phantaesus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
32	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj	_	_
40	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
41	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
44	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	obj	_	_
45	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	48	advmod	_	_
47	over	over	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
49	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | dryad |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Phantaesus | dryad's dear friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Phantaesus |  |  |  |  | as the god of love; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | past | Phantaesus |  |  | the leafy boughs of the tree | hour | with dryad; often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under bough=Location |
| 5 | **rustle** | past | the tree |  |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **wave** | past | the tree *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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