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title: Rudy gazed on the young maiden; it was Annette, and yet it was not A… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Rudy gazed on the young maiden; it was Annette, and yet it was not Annette; still less did he suppose it was the spectral phantom, whom he had met near Grindelwald. Who acts: Rudy, stream. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, with its dependency
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XII. Evil Powers, sentence 46

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Rudy gazed on the young maiden; it was Annette, and yet it was not Annette; still less did he suppose it was the spectral phantom, whom he had met near Grindelwald.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, stream · **What happens:** gaze, be, not be, suppose, meet · **To what, where:** Annette, spectral phantom, Grindelwald · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rudy, stream), 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:pg27200:63:46
# text = Rudy gazed on the young maiden; it was Annette, and yet it was not Annette; still less did he suppose it was the spectral phantom, whom he had met near Grindelwald.
1	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	Annette	Annette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	Annette	Annette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	spectral	spectral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	near	near	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Grindelwald	Grindelwald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | Rudy |  |  |  |  | on the young maiden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on maiden=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | stream | Annette and Annette |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | stream | Annette |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **suppose** | past · do-support | Rudy |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | stream | the spectral phantom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **meet** | past · perfect | Rudy | the spectral phantom |  | Grindelwald |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-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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