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title: The living, breathing embodiment of Little Christina stood before hi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The living, breathing embodiment of Little Christina stood before him, just as he remembered her in the days of her childhood. Who acts: living, Ib. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 179

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The living, breathing embodiment of Little Christina stood before him, just as he remembered her in the days of her childhood.

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**Who acts:** living, Ib · **What happens:** breathe, stand, remember · **To what, where:** embodiment, living

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (living, Ib), 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:pg27200:51:179
# text = The living, breathing embodiment of Little Christina stood before him, just as he remembered her in the days of her childhood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	embodiment	embodiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	remembered	remember	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breathe** | gerund | the living *not said here* | embodiment of Little Christina |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embodiment=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the living |  |  |  | before Ib |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
| 3 | **remember** | past | Ib | living |  |  | day |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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