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title: Her hair was black as ebony, her eye dark as night, yet full of ligh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her hair was black as ebony, her eye dark as night, yet full of light and brilliancy so peculiar to the daughters of the east. Who acts: hair, eye. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 18

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Her hair was black as ebony, her eye dark as night, yet full of light and brilliancy so peculiar to the daughters of the east.

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**Who acts:** hair, eye · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewish Maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, eye), 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:pg27200:67:18
# text = Her hair was black as ebony, her eye dark as night, yet full of light and brilliancy so peculiar to the daughters of the east.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	ebony	ebony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	brilliancy	brilliancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | household's hair |  |  |  |  | as ebony; black *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | household's eye |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | household's hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of light and brilliancy; so peculiar; to the daughters of the east | tree rules |

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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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