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title: "She's thick, and fat and ugly," said the young green Frogs; "and he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "She's thick, and fat and ugly," said the young green Frogs; "and her children will be just as ugly as she is." Who acts: Mother, young green Frogs, children. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Toad, sentence 12

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"She's thick, and fat and ugly," said the young green Frogs; "and her children will be just as ugly as she is."

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**Who acts:** Mother, young green Frogs, children · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, young green Frogs, children), 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:pg27200:194:12
# text = "She's thick, and fat and ugly," said the young green Frogs; "and her children will be just as ugly as she is."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
24	just	just	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mother |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young green Frogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | future | Mother's children |  |  |  |  | ugly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Mother |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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