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title: The expression in the face of the grown-up maiden was still the same… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The expression in the face of the grown-up maiden was still the same as when, a child, she sat on the schoolroom form listening with thoughtful eyes to the words of the Christian teacher. Who acts: expression, Sarah. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Jewis
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Jewish Maiden, sentence 20

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The expression in the face of the grown-up maiden was still the same as when, a child, she sat on the schoolroom form listening with thoughtful eyes to the words of the Christian teacher.

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**Who acts:** expression, Sarah · **What happens:** grow up, be, sit, form, listen, word · **To what, where:** schoolroom, Christian teacher

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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 (expression, Sarah), 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:pg27200:67:20
# text = The expression in the face of the grown-up maiden was still the same as when, a child, she sat on the schoolroom form listening with thoughtful eyes to the words of the Christian teacher.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	schoolroom	schoolroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
28	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the expression in the face of the grown maiden |  |  |  | still | a child *obl*; same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Sarah |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** | present | Sarah *not said here* |  |  | the schoolroom |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on schoolroom=Location |
| 5 | **listen** | gerund | Sarah *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thoughtful eyes; to the words of the Christian teacher | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | the Christian teacher |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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