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title: She was, however, quite free from any physical deformity, although K… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She was, however, quite free from any physical deformity, although Kaela used to say she was a little crooked; but no eye, save an intimate acquaintance, would have noticed it. Who acts: Sophy, Kaela, eye. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Beauty of Form and B
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind, sentence 99

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She was, however, quite free from any physical deformity, although Kaela used to say she was a little crooked; but no eye, save an intimate acquaintance, would have noticed it.

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**Who acts:** Sophy, Kaela, eye · **What happens:** be, use, say, save, notice · **To what, where:** physical deformity, intimate acquaintance, deformity · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Sophy, Kaela, 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:pg27200:7:99
# text = She was, however, quite free from any physical deformity, although Kaela used to say she was a little crooked; but no eye, save an intimate acquaintance, would have noticed it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	deformity	deformity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	Kaela	Kaela	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	crooked	crooked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	26	det	_	_
26	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	intimate	intimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	noticed	notice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	parataxis	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sophy |  |  | any physical deformity |  | free, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | past | Kaela |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Kaela *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Sophy |  |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; crooked *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **save** | infinitive | no eye | a intimate acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acquaintance=Theme |
| 6 | **notice** | would · perfect |  | deformity |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=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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