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title: Whenever she paused, she was another being, so that none was able to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Whenever she paused, she was another being, so that none was able to follow her, to recognize her, or to look more closely at her. Who acts: stream. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 108

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Whenever she paused, she was another being, so that none was able to follow her, to recognize her, or to look more closely at her.

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**Who acts:** stream · **What happens:** pause, be, follow, recognize, look · **To what, where:** stream

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (stream), 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:pg27200:25:108
# text = Whenever she paused, she was another being, so that none was able to follow her, to recognize her, or to look more closely at her.
1	Whenever	whenever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
7	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	recognize	recognize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	_
27	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | stream |  |  |  |  | whenever *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | stream |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | stream *not said here* | stream |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **recognize** | to-infinitive | stream *not said here* | stream |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive | stream *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at stream; closely *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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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