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title: I often tumbled her long, brown hair, while she stood in the garden… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I often tumbled her long, brown hair, while she stood in the garden by the apple-tree, musing, and not heeding how I strewed the blossoms on her hair, and dishevelled it; or sometimes, while she stood gazing at the red sun and the golden sky through the opening branches of the dark, thick foliage of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 73

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I often tumbled her long, brown hair, while she stood in the garden by the apple-tree, musing, and not heeding how I strewed the blossoms on her hair, and dishevelled it; or sometimes, while she stood gazing at the red sun and the golden sky through the opening branches of the dark, thick foliage of the garden trees.

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**Who acts:** I, thing · **What happens:** tumble, stand, muse, not heed, strew, dishevell · **To what, where:** long brown hair, garden, blossoms, hair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thing), 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:pg27200:212:73
# text = I often tumbled her long, brown hair, while she stood in the garden by the apple-tree, musing, and not heeding how I strewed the blossoms on her hair, and dishevelled it; or sometimes, while she stood gazing at the red sun and the golden sky through the opening branches of the dark, thick foliage of the garden trees.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	musing	muse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	heeding	heed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	strewed	strew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	dishevelled	dishevell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
46	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	45	xcomp	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	_
55	through	through	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	appos	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	_
68	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tumble** | past | I | thing's long brown hair |  |  |  | often, sometimes *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | thing |  |  | the garden |  | by the apple tree | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in garden=Location |
| 3 | **muse** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **heed** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **strew** | past | I | the blossoms |  | thing's hair |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blossom=Theme on hair=Destination |
| 6 | **dishevell** | past | I *not said here* | hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stand** | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 8 | **gaze** | gerund | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the opening branches of the dark; at the red sun and the golden sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sun=Theme |

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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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