--- title: Gladly would she have taken the body home with her; but that was imp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Gladly would she have taken the body home with her; but that was impossible; so she took up the poor head with the closed eyes, kissed the cold lips, and shook the mould out of the beautiful hair. Who acts: girl, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Elf of the Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/) / 51 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 51 Gladly would she have taken the body home with her; but that was impossible; so she took up the poor head with the closed eyes, kissed the cold lips, and shook the mould out of the beautiful hair. **Who acts:** girl, that · **What happens:** take, be, take up, close, kiss, shake · **To what, where:** body, poor head, cold lips, mould, beautiful hair 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 (girl, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:30:51 # text = Gladly would she have taken the body home with her; but that was impossible; so she took up the poor head with the closed eyes, kissed the cold lips, and shook the mould out of the beautiful hair. 1 Gladly gladly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux _ _ 5 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 home home ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 15 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 out out ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | would · perfect | girl | the body | | | | with dream; gladly, home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | that | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **take up** | past | girl | the poor head | | | | with the closed eyes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 4 | **close** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **kiss** | past | girl *not said here* | the cold lips | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Co-Agent | | 6 | **shake** | past | girl *not said here* | the mould | | the beautiful hair | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent mould=Theme out hair=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/52/) - ↑ back to [The Elf of the Rose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/30/)