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title: By day it was charming in appearance as an angel of light, but with… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: By day it was charming in appearance as an angel of light, but with a temper wicked and wild; while at night, in the form of an ugly frog, it was quiet and mournful, with eyes full of sorrow. Who acts: favor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 96

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By day it was charming in appearance as an angel of light, but with a temper wicked and wild; while at night, in the form of an ugly frog, it was quiet and mournful, with eyes full of sorrow.

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**Who acts:** favor · **What happens:** charm, be, form · **To what, where:** appearance, ugly frog

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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 (favor), 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:pg27200:83:96
# text = By day it was charming in appearance as an angel of light, but with a temper wicked and wild; while at night, in the form of an ugly frog, it was quiet and mournful, with eyes full of sorrow.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	charming	charm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
42	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charm** | past · progressive | favor |  |  | appearance | day; night | as a angel of light; in the form of a ugly frog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | favor |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | favor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | a ugly frog |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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