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title: Her body was much larger than those animals ever are, and on this ac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her body was much larger than those animals ever are, and on this account it was much more hideous in appearance; for she looked like a wretched dwarf, with a frog's head, and webbed fingers. Who acts: body, animals, set, transformation. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 32

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Her body was much larger than those animals ever are, and on this account it was much more hideous in appearance; for she looked like a wretched dwarf, with a frog's head, and webbed fingers.

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**Who acts:** body, animals, set, transformation · **What happens:** be, look, web · **To what, where:** account, webbed fingers

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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 (body, animals, set, transformation), 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:pg27200:85:32
# text = Her body was much larger than those animals ever are, and on this account it was much more hideous in appearance; for she looked like a wretched dwarf, with a frog's head, and webbed fingers.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	webbed	web	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | transformation's body |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **does** | present | that animals |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | set |  |  | this account |  | in appearance; hideous *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | transformation | webbed fingers |  |  |  | like a wretched dwarf; with a frog's head | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **web** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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