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title: The maiden was not Annette; yet it seemed as if he had seen her some… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden was not Annette; yet it seemed as if he had seen her somewhere before, perhaps near Grindelwald, on the evening of his return home from Interlachen, after the shooting-match. Who acts: maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 19

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The maiden was not Annette; yet it seemed as if he had seen her somewhere before, perhaps near Grindelwald, on the evening of his return home from Interlachen, after the shooting-match.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** not be, seem, see, return · **To what, where:** Annette, Grindelwald, schoolmaster, Interlachen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden), 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:pg27200:63:19
# text = The maiden was not Annette; yet it seemed as if he had seen her somewhere before, perhaps near Grindelwald, on the evening of his return home from Interlachen, after the shooting-match.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	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	Annette	Annette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	advmod	_	_
17	before	before	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Grindelwald	Grindelwald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Interlachen	Interlachen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | past |  | Annette |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the maiden |  |  | Grindelwald | evening |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Maiden | schoolmaster |  |  |  | before *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 4 | **return** |  | Maiden |  |  | Interlachen |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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