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title: She had just the same manners while playing, bending her long yellow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had just the same manners while playing, bending her long yellow face from side to side, and nodding in time to the beautiful music. Who acts: Ida. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 90

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She had just the same manners while playing, bending her long yellow face from side to side, and nodding in time to the beautiful music.

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**Who acts:** Ida · **What happens:** have, play, bend, nod · **To what, where:** same manners, long yellow face, side, beautiful music

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ida), 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:pg27200:73:90
# text = She had just the same manners while playing, bending her long yellow face from side to side, and nodding in time to the beautiful music.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	manners	manners	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Ida | the same manners |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Ida *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bend** | gerund | Ida *not said here* | Ida's long yellow face |  | side to side |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent face=Material |
| 4 | **nod** | gerund | Ida *not said here* |  | the beautiful music |  | time |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to music=Recipient |

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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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