--- title: "She was beautiful," said her mother; "she was quite different from… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "She was beautiful," said her mother; "she was quite different from the beauties they call 'antiques,' for they are so damaged. Who acts: Kaela, mother, galleries. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kaela, mother, galleries), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:7:117 # text = "She was beautiful," said her mother; "she was quite different from the beauties they call 'antiques,' for they are so damaged. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 quite quite ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 beauties beauty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 ' 's PART POS _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 antiques antique NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 25 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Kaela | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Kaela's mother | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Kaela | | | the beauties | | different *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **call** *in a quote* | present | galleries *= gallery* | antiques | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beauty=Recipient | | 5 | **damage** *in a quote* | present · passive | | galleries *= gallery* | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/118/) - ↑ back to [Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/7/)