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title: A pretty Barbel, with spotted skin, and an enviably round back, decl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A pretty Barbel, with spotted skin, and an enviably round back, declared that the "human fry" were still there. Who acts: pretty Barbel, human fry. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 106

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A pretty Barbel, with spotted skin, and an enviably round back, declared that the "human fry" were still there.

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**Who acts:** pretty Barbel, human fry · **What happens:** spot, declare, be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty Barbel, human fry), 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:pg27200:26:106
# text = A pretty Barbel, with spotted skin, and an enviably round back, declared that the "human fry" were still there.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Barbel	Barbel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	spotted	spot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	enviably	enviably	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	fry	fry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | a pretty Barbel |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the human fry |  |  |  | still | there *property* | 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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