--- title: Then the frog-skin fell off, and Helga stood before her in all her b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the frog-skin fell off, and Helga stood before her in all her beauty, more lovely and gentle-looking, and with eyes beaming with love. Who acts: frog skin, Helga, eyes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog skin, Helga, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:87:84 # text = Then the frog-skin fell off, and Helga stood before her in all her beauty, more lovely and gentle-looking, and with eyes beaming with love. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 3 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 off off ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 Helga Helga PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 before before ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 17 det:predet _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 beauty beauty NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 20 advmod _ _ 20 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 29 beaming beam VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall off** | past | the frog skin | | | | then | with eyes | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **stand** | past | Helga | | | skin's beauty | before skin | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | | 3 | **look** | gerund | Helga *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **beam** | gerund | eyes *not said here* | | | | | with love | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with love=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/85/) - ↑ back to [The Marsh King's Daughter, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/87/)