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title: Her wicked brother stopped over her, and laughed hideously, as fiend… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her wicked brother stopped over her, and laughed hideously, as fiends only can laugh. Who acts: wicked brother, fiends. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 39

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Her wicked brother stopped over her, and laughed hideously, as fiends only can laugh.

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**Who acts:** wicked brother, fiends · **What happens:** stop, laugh

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked brother, fiends), 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:pg27200:30:39
# text = Her wicked brother stopped over her, and laughed hideously, as fiends only can laugh.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	hideously	hideously	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fiends	fiend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | past | girl's wicked brother |  |  |  |  | over girl | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **laugh** | past | girl's wicked brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as fiends; hideously *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | can | fiends *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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