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title: Now came the time for John to guess what she was thinking of; and oh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now came the time for John to guess what she was thinking of; and oh, how kindly she looked at him as she spoke. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3, sentence 15

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Now came the time for John to guess what she was thinking of; and oh, how kindly she looked at him as she spoke.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** come, guess, think, look, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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:pg27200:198:15
# text = Now came the time for John to guess what she was thinking of; and oh, how kindly she looked at him as she spoke.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **guess** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | princess |  |  |  |  | at John; kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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