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title: Gently and earnestly she drew me to her, and spake as if an angel we… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Gently and earnestly she drew me to her, and spake as if an angel were speaking. Who acts: mistress, angel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 101

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Gently and earnestly she drew me to her, and spake as if an angel were speaking.

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**Who acts:** mistress, angel · **What happens:** draw, speak · **To what, where:** me, mother, spake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, angel), 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:pg27200:46:101
# text = Gently and earnestly she drew me to her, and spake as if an angel were speaking.
1	Gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	1	conj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | mistress | me | mother |  |  | gently *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to she=Destination |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | a angel | spake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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