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title: He forgot her ugly form, and only thought how the mercy and loving-k… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He forgot her ugly form, and only thought how the mercy and loving-kindness of the Almighty was acting through this hideous apparition. Who acts: handsomest, mercy, figure. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 99

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He forgot her ugly form, and only thought how the mercy and loving-kindness of the Almighty was acting through this hideous apparition.

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**Who acts:** handsomest, mercy, figure · **What happens:** forget, think, act, form · **To what, where:** ugly form, hideous apparition

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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, mercy, figure), 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:pg27200:85:99
# text = He forgot her ugly form, and only thought how the mercy and loving-kindness of the Almighty was acting through this hideous apparition.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	loving	loving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Almighty	almighty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	acting	act	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
22	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	apparition	apparition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past | handsomest *= handsome* | figure's ugly form |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | handsomest *= handsome* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **act** | past · progressive | the mercy and loving kindness of the Almighty |  |  | this hideous apparition |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **form** |  | figure |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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