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title: She fastened her long flowing hair round her head, so that the polyp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She fastened her long flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi might not seize hold of it. Who acts: courage, polypi. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2, sentence 86

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She fastened her long flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi might not seize hold of it.

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**Who acts:** courage, polypi · **What happens:** fasten, flow, not seize, hold · **To what, where:** long flowing hair, hold

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (courage, polypi), 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:pg27200:76:86
# text = She fastened her long flowing hair round her head, so that the polypi might not seize hold of it.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	17	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	polypi	polypi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
18	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past | courage | courage's long flowing hair |  |  |  | round courage's head | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **seize** | might | the polypi | hold of hold |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** |  |  | hold |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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