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title: She had also to experience another grief in seeing Alfred marry agai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had also to experience another grief in seeing Alfred marry again, marry Sophy, who was nothing at all to look at. " Who acts: Kaela, Alfred, Sophy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 121

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She had also to experience another grief in seeing Alfred marry again, marry Sophy, who was nothing at all to look at. "

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**Who acts:** Kaela, Alfred, Sophy · **What happens:** experience, see, marry, be, look · **To what, where:** grief, Alfred, Sophy, nothing, all

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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, Alfred, Sophy), 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:pg27200:7:121
# text = She had also to experience another grief in seeing Alfred marry again, marry Sophy, who was nothing at all to look at. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	experience	experience	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
15	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	appos	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **experience** | past | Kaela | another grief |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grief=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Kaela *not said here* | Alfred |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **marry** | infinitive | Alfred *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **marry** | infinitive | Kaela *not said here* | Sophy |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sophy=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Sophy | nothing |  | all |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | Kaela *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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