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title: He advanced towards her, for he had never seen a more beautiful maid… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He advanced towards her, for he had never seen a more beautiful maiden. Who acts: huntsman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 79

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He advanced towards her, for he had never seen a more beautiful maiden.

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**Who acts:** huntsman · **What happens:** advance, not see · **To what, where:** beautiful maiden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman), 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:pg27200:209:79
# text = He advanced towards her, for he had never seen a more beautiful maiden.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | past | huntsman |  |  |  |  | towards sound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | huntsman | a beautiful maiden |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus |

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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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