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title: After-wards he led her through fragrant gardens and lofty halls, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After-wards he led her through fragrant gardens and lofty halls, but not a smile appeared on her lips or sparkled in her eyes. Who acts: maiden, smile. 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 eve
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 97

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After-wards he led her through fragrant gardens and lofty halls, but not a smile appeared on her lips or sparkled in her eyes.

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**Who acts:** maiden, smile · **What happens:** lead, not appear, sparkle · **To what, where:** head, fragrant gardens, lips, eyes

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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 (maiden, smile), 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:pg27200:209:97
# text = After-wards he led her through fragrant gardens and lofty halls, but not a smile appeared on her lips or sparkled in her eyes.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wards	ward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sparkled	sparkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | maiden | head |  | fragrant gardens and lofty halls | after wards |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme through garden=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **appear** | past | a smile |  |  | head's lips |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lip=Location |
| 3 | **sparkle** | participle | a smile *not said here* |  |  | head's eyes |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in eye=Location |

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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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