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title: But she had forgotten how soiled her clothes had become while in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But she had forgotten how soiled her clothes had become while in the Marsh Woman's brewery, and that they were covered with mud; a snake had also fastened itself in her hair, and hung down her back, while from each fold in her dress a great toad peeped out and croaked like an asthmatic poodle. Who a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 32

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But she had forgotten how soiled her clothes had become while in the Marsh Woman's brewery, and that they were covered with mud; a snake had also fastened itself in her hair, and hung down her back, while from each fold in her dress a great toad peeped out and croaked like an asthmatic poodle.

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**Who acts:** punishment, clothes · **What happens:** forget, soil, become, cover, fasten, hang down · **To what, where:** Woman brewery, clothes, snake, hair, back, fold · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (punishment, clothes), 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:pg27200:37:32
# text = But she had forgotten how soiled her clothes had become while in the Marsh Woman's brewery, and that they were covered with mud; a snake had also fastened itself in her hair, and hung down her back, while from each fold in her dress a great toad peeped out and croaked like an asthmatic poodle.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	soiled	soil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Marsh	Marsh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	brewery	brewery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
32	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obj	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
39	down	down	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	appos	_	_
53	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	acl	_	_
54	out	out	ADP	RP	_	53	compound:prt	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	croaked	croak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	53	conj	_	_
57	like	like	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
58	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
59	asthmatic	asthmatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	poodle	poodle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past · perfect | punishment |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **soil** | participle | punishment's clothes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** | past · perfect | punishment's clothes | Woman brewery |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | clothes |  |  |  | with mud | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mud=Theme |
| 5 | **fasten** | past · perfect · passive |  | a snake |  | punishment's hair |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient itself=Result |
| 6 | **hang down** | past |  | punishment's back |  | each fold in punishment's dress |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 7 | **peep out** | participle |  | a great toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **croak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a asthmatic poodle | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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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