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title: He uttered some holy names and made the sign of the cross, while the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He uttered some holy names and made the sign of the cross, while the form remained motionless by his side. Who acts: handsomest. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 94

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He uttered some holy names and made the sign of the cross, while the form remained motionless by his side.

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**Who acts:** handsomest · **What happens:** utter, make, remain motionless, sign · **To what, where:** holy names, sign, form, cross

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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 (handsomest), 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:pg27200:85:94
# text = He uttered some holy names and made the sign of the cross, while the form remained motionless by his side.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	motionless	motionless	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | handsomest *= handsome* | some holy names |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | handsomest *= handsome* *not said here* | the sign of the cross |  |  |  | the form *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sign=Product |
| 3 | **remain motionless** | participle |  | the form *not said here* |  |  |  | by handsomest's side | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | the cross |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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