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title: She looked into a thousand faces, but not one was familiar to her; s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She looked into a thousand faces, but not one was familiar to her; she saw not a single form from home. Who acts: stream, one. 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 clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 110

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She looked into a thousand faces, but not one was familiar to her; she saw not a single form from home.

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**Who acts:** stream, one · **What happens:** look, be, not see · **To what, where:** stream, single form, home

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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, one), 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:pg27200:25:110
# text = She looked into a thousand faces, but not one was familiar to her; she saw not a single form from home.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | stream |  |  |  |  | into thousand faces | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | one |  | stream |  |  | familiar *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **see** | past | stream | a single form |  | home |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer form=Stimulus |

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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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