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title: She had a mouth and staring eyes, like ours, and a great balloon at… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a mouth and staring eyes, like ours, and a great balloon at the back of her head, and something like a shut-up umbrella in front; there were a lot of dangling bits of seaweed hanging about her. Who acts: Barbel, lot, seaweed. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 109

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She had a mouth and staring eyes, like ours, and a great balloon at the back of her head, and something like a shut-up umbrella in front; there were a lot of dangling bits of seaweed hanging about her.

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**Who acts:** Barbel, lot, seaweed · **What happens:** have, stare, be, dangle, hang · **To what, where:** mouth, eyes

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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 (Barbel, lot, seaweed), 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:pg27200:26:109
# text = She had a mouth and staring eyes, like ours, and a great balloon at the back of her head, and something like a shut-up umbrella in front; there were a lot of dangling bits of seaweed hanging about her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	obl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	shut	shut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	amod	_	_
40	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Barbel | a mouth |  |  |  | a great balloon at the back of Barbel's head *obl*; something *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 2 | **stare** | gerund | Barbel *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  | like ours | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | a lot of dangling bits of seaweed |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dangle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang** | gerund | seaweed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about Barbel | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about she=Location |

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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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