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title: Out of the thicket stepped a tall old woman, her face quite brown, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of the thicket stepped a tall old woman, her face quite brown, and her hair of a deep shining black; the whites of her eyes glittered like a Moor's; on her back she carried a bundle, and in her hand a knotted stick. Who acts: whites, fright. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen»
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 57

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Out of the thicket stepped a tall old woman, her face quite brown, and her hair of a deep shining black; the whites of her eyes glittered like a Moor's; on her back she carried a bundle, and in her hand a knotted stick.

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**Who acts:** whites, fright · **What happens:** step, shine, glitter, carry, knot · **To what, where:** tall old woman, thicket, bundle, back

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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 (whites, fright), 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:pg27200:51:57
# text = Out of the thicket stepped a tall old woman, her face quite brown, and her hair of a deep shining black; the whites of her eyes glittered like a Moor's; on her back she carried a bundle, and in her hand a knotted stick.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	whites	white	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
31	like	like	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Moor	Moor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	knotted	knot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past |  | a tall old woman and fright's face |  | the thicket |  | fright's hair *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location woman=Theme |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **glitter** | past | the whites |  |  |  |  | like a Moor | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry** | past | fright | a bundle |  | fright's back |  | a knotted stick *obl* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 5 | **knot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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