--- title: When the wicked queen saw this, she rubbed her face with walnut-juic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When the wicked queen saw this, she rubbed her face with walnut-juice, so that she was quite brown; then she tangled her beautiful hair and smeared it with disgusting ointment, till it was quite impossible to recognize the beautiful Eliza. Who acts: wicked queen, queen. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (wicked queen, queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:208:33 # text = When the wicked queen saw this, she rubbed her face with walnut-juice, so that she was quite brown; then she tangled her beautiful hair and smeared it with disgusting ointment, till it was quite impossible to recognize the beautiful Eliza. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rubbed rub VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 walnut walnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 juice juice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 22 mark _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 fixed _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 quite quite ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tangled tangle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 27 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 smeared smear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 disgusting disgusting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 ointment ointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 expl _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 quite quite ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 parataxis _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 recognize recognize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 csubj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 Eliza Eliza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the wicked queen | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **rub** | past | queen | queen's face | | | | with walnut juice | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with juice=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | queen | | | | | brown *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **tangle** | past | queen | queen's beautiful hair | | | then | | tree rules | | 5 | **smear** | past | queen *not said here* | hair | | | | with disgusting ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with ointment=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **recognize** | to-infinitive | | the beautiful Eliza | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eliza=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/34/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/)