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title: Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin folk ever had. Who acts: daughter, goblin folk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 76

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Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin folk ever had.

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**Who acts:** daughter, goblin folk · **What happens:** make, follow, have · **To what, where:** figure, wife, shadow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, goblin folk), 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:pg27200:31:76
# text = Another daughter could make a figure like herself follow her, as if she had a shadow, which none of the goblin folk ever had.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	nsubj	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
25	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	26	advmod	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | could | another daughter | a figure |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product |
| 2 | **follow** | present | daughter | wife |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | daughter | a shadow |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | past | the goblin folk *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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