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title: And he remembered it so well in all the various forms in which it ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he remembered it so well in all the various forms in which it had come to him, sometimes young and charming, like spring itself, sometimes as a beautiful maiden, with a wreath of thyme in her hair, and a beechen branch in her hand, and with eyes that gleamed like deep woodland lakes in the brigh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 12

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And he remembered it so well in all the various forms in which it had come to him, sometimes young and charming, like spring itself, sometimes as a beautiful maiden, with a wreath of thyme in her hair, and a beechen branch in her hand, and with eyes that gleamed like deep woodland lakes in the bright sunshine.

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**Who acts:** man, door, that · **What happens:** remember, come, charm, gleam · **To what, where:** door, various forms, man, bright sunshine

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, door, that), 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:pg27200:211:12
# text = And he remembered it so well in all the various forms in which it had come to him, sometimes young and charming, like spring itself, sometimes as a beautiful maiden, with a wreath of thyme in her hair, and a beechen branch in her hand, and with eyes that gleamed like deep woodland lakes in the bright sunshine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	21	advmod	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
27	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	26	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	33	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	thyme	thyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	beechen	beechen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
56	gleamed	gleam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
57	like	like	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
59	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	compound	_	_
60	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | past | man | door |  | all various forms | spring | as a beautiful maiden in sorrow's hair and a wreath of thyme; a beechen branch in sorrow's hand *obl*; well *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as maiden=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | door |  | man | all various forms |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **charm** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **gleam** | past | that |  |  | the bright sunshine |  | with eyes; like deep woodland lakes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=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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