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title: All this was not right in Babette, but she was only nineteen years o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All this was not right in Babette, but she was only nineteen years of age, and she did not reflect on what she did, neither did she think that her conduct would appear to the young Englishman as light, and not even becoming the modest and much-loved daughter of the miller. Who acts: this, she, condu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XI. the Cousin, sentence 15

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All this was not right in Babette, but she was only nineteen years of age, and she did not reflect on what she did, neither did she think that her conduct would appear to the young Englishman as light, and not even becoming the modest and much-loved daughter of the miller.

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**Who acts:** this, she, conduct, her · **What happens:** not be, be, not reflect, do, think, appear · **To what, where:** Babette, nineteen years, modest loved daughter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XI. the Cousin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, she, conduct, her), 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:pg27200:62:15
# text = All this was not right in Babette, but she was only nineteen years of age, and she did not reflect on what she did, neither did she think that her conduct would appear to the young Englishman as light, and not even becoming the modest and much-loved daughter of the miller.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Babette	Babette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	reflect	reflect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	31	cc:preconj	_	_
29	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	Englishman	Englishman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	even	even	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
49	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
51	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	amod	_	_
54	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	xcomp	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	miller	miller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | this |  |  | Babette |  | right *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | she | nineteen years |  |  | of age |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **reflect** | past · do-support | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on what=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | past | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | she |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **appear** | would | her conduct |  |  |  |  | to the young Englishman; as light | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **become** | gerund | this *not said here* | the modest loved daughter of the miller |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **conduct** |  | her *= she* |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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