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title: Yes, she is smiling at the memory of that day, and many thoughts and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes, she is smiling at the memory of that day, and many thoughts and recollections of the past; but the handsome young man is gone, and the rose has withered in the old book, and grandmother is sitting there, again an old woman, looking down upon the withered rose in the book. Who acts: GRANDMOTHER,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, She Was Good For Nothing, sentence 179

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Yes, she is smiling at the memory of that day, and many thoughts and recollections of the past; but the handsome young man is gone, and the rose has withered in the old book, and grandmother is sitting there, again an old woman, looking down upon the withered rose in the book.

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**Who acts:** GRANDMOTHER, many thoughts · **What happens:** smile, be, wither, sit, look down, recollect · **To what, where:** memory, rose, old book, old woman, past

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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, many thoughts), 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:pg27200:46:179
# text = Yes, she is smiling at the memory of that day, and many thoughts and recollections of the past; but the handsome young man is gone, and the rose has withered in the old book, and grandmother is sitting there, again an old woman, looking down upon the withered rose in the book.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	recollections	recollection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
44	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	again	again	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
52	down	down	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	56	amod	_	_
56	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | present · progressive | GRANDMOTHER |  |  | the memory of that day |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | many thoughts and recollections of the past |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wither** | present · perfect · passive |  | the rose |  | the old book |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sit** | present · progressive | grandmother | a old woman |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look down** | gerund | grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the withered rose in the book; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon rose=Theme |
| 6 | **wither** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **recollect** |  |  | the past |  |  |  |  | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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