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title: Beautiful girls in festive attire, with pleasant smiles on their lip… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Beautiful girls in festive attire, with pleasant smiles on their lips, and the light spirit of youth in their hearts--"Marys," with roses in their hair, but without carriage and postilion--flitted to and fro in the wild dance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 59

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Beautiful girls in festive attire, with pleasant smiles on their lips, and the light spirit of youth in their hearts--"Marys," with roses in their hair, but without carriage and postilion--flitted to and fro in the wild dance.

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**What happens:** flit, fro · **To what, where:** carriage, wild dance

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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: 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:pg27200:26:59
# text = Beautiful girls in festive attire, with pleasant smiles on their lips, and the light spirit of youth in their hearts--"Marys," with roses in their hair, but without carriage and postilion--flitted to and fro in the wild dance.
1	Beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	festive	festive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	smiles	smile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Marys	Marys	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	postilion	postilion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	flitted	flit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	conj	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flit** | participle |  | carriage and postilion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  | the wild dance |  |  | 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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