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title: "Once in my youthful hours, when gay and free, A maiden loved me; an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Once in my youthful hours, when gay and free, A maiden loved me; and her gentle kiss, Rich in its tender love and purity, Taught me, alas! too much of earthly bliss. Who acts: maiden, gentle kiss, kiss. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 21

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"Once in my youthful hours, when gay and free, A maiden loved me; and her gentle kiss, Rich in its tender love and purity, Taught me, alas! too much of earthly bliss.

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**Who acts:** maiden, gentle kiss, kiss · **What happens:** love, teach, kiss · **To what, where:** man, alas

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, gentle kiss, kiss), 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:pg27200:42:21
# text = "Once in my youthful hours, when gay and free, A maiden loved me; and her gentle kiss, Rich in its tender love and purity, Taught me, alas! too much of earthly bliss.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Rich	Rich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	purity	purity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
31	Taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
36	too	too	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	earthly	earthly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	bliss	bliss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** *in a quote* | past | a maiden | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | maiden's gentle kiss | alas | man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ala=Topic |
| 3 | **kiss** *in a quote* |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* |  | kiss |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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