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title: "He has not arrived here yet," said an old gray-haired woman, who wa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "He has not arrived here yet," said an old gray-haired woman, who was walking about, and watering Death's hothouse. " Who acts: miracle, old gray haired woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 42

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"He has not arrived here yet," said an old gray-haired woman, who was walking about, and watering Death's hothouse. "

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**Who acts:** miracle, old gray haired woman · **What happens:** not arrive, say, walk, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miracle, old gray haired woman), 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:pg27200:185:42
# text = "He has not arrived here yet," said an old gray-haired woman, who was walking about, and watering Death's hothouse. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	ccomp	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
13	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	watering	water	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
25	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	hothouse	hothouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **arrive** *in a quote* | present · perfect | miracle |  |  | here | yet |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a old gray haired woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **walk** | past · progressive | a old gray haired woman |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **water** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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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