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title: In all Kjoge there was not a girl like her; and how graceful she loo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In all Kjoge there was not a girl like her; and how graceful she looked, although her glance at first was odd, and not familiar; but for a moment only, then she rushed towards him as if she would have kissed him; she did not, however, although she was very near it. Who acts: girl, glance. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 80

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In all Kjoge there was not a girl like her; and how graceful she looked, although her glance at first was odd, and not familiar; but for a moment only, then she rushed towards him as if she would have kissed him; she did not, however, although she was very near it.

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**Who acts:** girl, glance · **What happens:** be, look, not be, rush, kiss, not do · **To what, where:** Kjoge, glance, deal

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, glance), 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:pg27200:202:80
# text = In all Kjoge there was not a girl like her; and how graceful she looked, although her glance at first was odd, and not familiar; but for a moment only, then she rushed towards him as if she would have kissed him; she did not, however, although she was very near it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
14	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
34	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
39	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obl	_	_
41	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
42	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	aux	_	_
46	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	however	however	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
55	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
56	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
57	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
58	very	very	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	near	near	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a girl like Kjoge |  |  | all Kjoge; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kjoge=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | girl | girl's glance |  |  |  | graceful *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme glance=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | girl's glance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | odd *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **be** |  | girl's glance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rush** | past | girl |  |  |  | then; moment | towards deal | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 6 | **kiss** | would · perfect | girl | deal |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **not** **do** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | girl |  |  | glance |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **glance** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=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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