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title: Every month this temper showed itself in sharper outlines; and in th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Every month this temper showed itself in sharper outlines; and in the course of years, while the storks still made the same journeys in autumn to the hill, and in spring to the moors, the child grew to be almost a woman, and before any one seemed aware of it, she was a wonderfully beautiful maiden o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 14

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Every month this temper showed itself in sharper outlines; and in the course of years, while the storks still made the same journeys in autumn to the hill, and in spring to the moors, the child grew to be almost a woman, and before any one seemed aware of it, she was a wonderfully beautiful maiden of sixteen.

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**Who acts:** temper, storks, child, one · **What happens:** show, make, grow, be, seem · **To what, where:** temper, sharper outlines, same journeys, woman, beautiful maiden

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (temper, storks, child, one), 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:pg27200:85:14
# text = Every month this temper showed itself in sharper outlines; and in the course of years, while the storks still made the same journeys in autumn to the hill, and in spring to the moors, the child grew to be almost a woman, and before any one seemed aware of it, she was a wonderfully beautiful maiden of sixteen.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	temper	temper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sharper	sharp	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	outlines	outline	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	journeys	journey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	cop	_	_
44	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
50	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
53	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	xcomp	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
57	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
58	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
60	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
63	of	of	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | past | this temper | temper |  | sharper outlines | month |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent itself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | the storks | the same journeys |  |  | still; autumn | to the hill | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product |
| 3 | **grow** | past | the child |  |  |  | spring |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the child *not said here* | a woman |  |  |  | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **seem** | past | any one |  |  |  |  | aware *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | past | child | a beautiful maiden |  |  |  | of sixteen | 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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