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title: The Dryad forgot to bid farewell to the regions of home; she thought… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Dryad forgot to bid farewell to the regions of home; she thought not of the waving grass and of the innocent daisies, which had looked up to her as to a great lady, a young Princess playing at being a shepherdess out in the open air. Who acts: Dryad, journey, young Princess. A sentence of «Fairy
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 9

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The Dryad forgot to bid farewell to the regions of home; she thought not of the waving grass and of the innocent daisies, which had looked up to her as to a great lady, a young Princess playing at being a shepherdess out in the open air.

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**Who acts:** Dryad, journey, young Princess · **What happens:** forget, not bid, not think, look up, play out, be · **To what, where:** farewell, waving grass, journey, open air, shepherdess

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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 (Dryad, journey, young Princess), 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:pg27200:25:9
# text = The Dryad forgot to bid farewell to the regions of home; she thought not of the waving grass and of the innocent daisies, which had looked up to her as to a great lady, a young Princess playing at being a shepherdess out in the open air.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Dryad	Dryad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	bid	bid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	waving	waving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	daisies	daisy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
41	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	45	cop	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	out	out	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | the Dryad |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **bid** | to-infinitive | the Dryad *not said here* | farewell |  |  |  | to the regions of home | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past | journey |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look up** | past · perfect · passive |  | the waving grass and the innocent daisies | journey |  |  | as a great lady and a young Princess | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 5 | **play out** | gerund | a young Princess *not said here* |  |  | the open air |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | a shepherdess |  |  | tree rules |

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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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