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title: Then she kissed it and fondled it; but the child struggled and fough… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she kissed it and fondled it; but the child struggled and fought, and bit as if she had been a little wild cat. Who acts: frog, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 92

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Then she kissed it and fondled it; but the child struggled and fought, and bit as if she had been a little wild cat.

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**Who acts:** frog, child · **What happens:** kiss, fondle, struggle, fight, be · **To what, where:** dream, bit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, child), 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:pg27200:83:92
# text = Then she kissed it and fondled it; but the child struggled and fought, and bit as if she had been a little wild cat.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fondled	fondle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	struggled	struggle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | frog | dream |  |  | then |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **fondle** | past | frog *not said here* | dream |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **struggle** | past | the child | bit |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | past | the child *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | frog |  |  |  |  | as a little wild cat | tree rules |

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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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