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title: This curl was intended to conceal the blind eye, but it made the def… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This curl was intended to conceal the blind eye, but it made the defect only more visible. Who acts: curl. 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 40

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This curl was intended to conceal the blind eye, but it made the defect only more visible.

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**Who acts:** curl · **What happens:** intend, conceal, make · **To what, where:** curl, blind eye, defect

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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 (curl), 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:pg27200:46:40
# text = This curl was intended to conceal the blind eye, but it made the defect only more visible.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	defect	defect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
18	visible	visible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intend** | past · passive |  | this curl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conceal** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | the blind eye |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | curl | the defect |  |  |  | visible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material defect=Product |

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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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