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title: "And then he looks so splendid!" said the young ladies and the old l… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "And then he looks so splendid!" said the young ladies and the old ladies too; and the oldest of all procured an album for famous locks of hair, wholly and solely that she might beg a lock of his rich splendid hair, that treasure, that golden treasure. Who acts: name, young ladies, Charlotte. A sent
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Golden Treasure, sentence 178

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"And then he looks so splendid!" said the young ladies and the old ladies too; and the oldest of all procured an album for famous locks of hair, wholly and solely that she might beg a lock of his rich splendid hair, that treasure, that golden treasure.

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**Who acts:** name, young ladies, Charlotte · **What happens:** look, say, procure, beg · **To what, where:** album, lock · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Golden Treasure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, young ladies, Charlotte), 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:pg27200:39:178
# text = "And then he looks so splendid!" said the young ladies and the old ladies too; and the oldest of all procured an album for famous locks of hair, wholly and solely that she might beg a lock of his rich splendid hair, that treasure, that golden treasure.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	punct	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	_
25	procured	procure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	album	album	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	34	conj	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	beg	beg	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
45	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	det	_	_
53	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | present | name |  |  |  | then | splendid *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the young ladies and the old ladies |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **procure** | participle | the young ladies and the old ladies *not said here* | a album |  |  |  | for famous locks of hair; wholly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent album=Theme for lock=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | might | Charlotte | a lock of name's rich splendid hair and that treasure and that golden treasure |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent lock=Recipient |

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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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