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title: Anna Dorothea, the pale hyacinth, a child of fourteen, was quiet and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Anna Dorothea, the pale hyacinth, a child of fourteen, was quiet and thoughtful; her large, deep, blue eyes had a dreamy look, but a childlike smile still played round her mouth. Who acts: Anna, large deep blue eyes, childlike smile. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 82

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Anna Dorothea, the pale hyacinth, a child of fourteen, was quiet and thoughtful; her large, deep, blue eyes had a dreamy look, but a childlike smile still played round her mouth.

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**Who acts:** Anna, large deep blue eyes, childlike smile · **What happens:** be, have, play · **To what, where:** dreamy look

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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 (Anna, large deep blue eyes, childlike smile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:14702`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:212:82
# text = Anna Dorothea, the pale hyacinth, a child of fourteen, was quiet and thoughtful; her large, deep, blue eyes had a dreamy look, but a childlike smile still played round her mouth.
1	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
2	Dorothea	Dorothea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hyacinth	hyacinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fourteen	fourteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	dreamy	dreamy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
36	round	round	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Anna |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Anna *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Anna's large deep blue eyes | a dreamy look |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient |
| 4 | **play** | past | a childlike smile |  |  |  | still | round Anna's mouth | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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