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title: And all the while she was really the loveliest creature that one cou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the while she was really the loveliest creature that one could imagine, and as tender and delicate as a beautiful rose-leaf. Who acts: Tiny, loveliest creature. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 52

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And all the while she was really the loveliest creature that one could imagine, and as tender and delicate as a beautiful rose-leaf.

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**Who acts:** Tiny, loveliest creature · **What happens:** be, imagine · **To what, where:** loveliest creature

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiny, loveliest creature), 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:pg27200:79:52
# text = And all the while she was really the loveliest creature that one could imagine, and as tender and delicate as a beautiful rose-leaf.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Tiny | all loveliest creature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **imagine** | could | all loveliest creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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