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title: She has a hymn-book with large silver clasps, in which she often rea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She has a hymn-book with large silver clasps, in which she often reads; and in the book, between the leaves, lies a rose, quite flat and dry; it is not so pretty as the roses which are standing in the glass, and yet she smiles at it most pleasantly, and tears even come into her eyes. " Who acts: GRA
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 173

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She has a hymn-book with large silver clasps, in which she often reads; and in the book, between the leaves, lies a rose, quite flat and dry; it is not so pretty as the roses which are standing in the glass, and yet she smiles at it most pleasantly, and tears even come into her eyes. "

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**Who acts:** GRANDMOTHER, hymn book, rose, roses, tears · **What happens:** have, clasp, read, lie, not be, stand · **To what, where:** book, glass, rose, eyes

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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 (GRANDMOTHER, hymn book, rose, roses), 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:pg27200:46:173
# text = She has a hymn-book with large silver clasps, in which she often reads; and in the book, between the leaves, lies a rose, quite flat and dry; it is not so pretty as the roses which are standing in the glass, and yet she smiles at it most pleasantly, and tears even come into her eyes. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	clasps	clasp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	reads	read	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
27	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
44	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	_
57	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	58	advmod	_	_
58	pleasantly	pleasantly	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
61	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	nsubj	_	_
62	even	even	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
64	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	66	nmod:poss	_	_
66	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
68	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | GRANDMOTHER |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clasp** | present | a hymn book with large silver |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **read** | present | GRANDMOTHER |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | present | a rose |  |  | the book |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in book=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | rose |  |  |  |  | as the roses; pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **stand** | present · progressive | the roses |  |  | the glass |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in glass=Location |
| 7 | **smile** | present | GRANDMOTHER |  |  | rose | yet | pleasantly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **come** | present | tears |  |  | GRANDMOTHER's eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_Location |

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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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