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title: A greenish white mouth spread half over her face; her arms became th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A greenish white mouth spread half over her face; her arms became thin and slimy; while broad hands, with webbed fingers, spread themselves out like fans. Who acts: greenish white mouth, arms, broad hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Dau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 4, sentence 49

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A greenish white mouth spread half over her face; her arms became thin and slimy; while broad hands, with webbed fingers, spread themselves out like fans.

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**Who acts:** greenish white mouth, arms, broad hands · **What happens:** spread, become, web, spread out · **To what, where:** face, arms

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (greenish white mouth, arms, broad hands), 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:pg27200:86:49
# text = A greenish white mouth spread half over her face; her arms became thin and slimy; while broad hands, with webbed fingers, spread themselves out like fans.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	greenish	greenish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	slimy	slimy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	webbed	web	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fans	fan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | a greenish white mouth |  |  | mouth's face |  | half *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over face=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | mouth's arms |  |  |  |  | thin *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **web** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spread out** | past | broad hands | arms *= arm* |  |  |  | like fans | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme |

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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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