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title: Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, be… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, beautiful as Eve. Airy and etherial as a vision, and yet sharply defined amid the surrounding shadows, stood this daughter of Hindostan: I could read on her delicate brow the thought that had brought her hither. Who acts: I. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 3

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Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, beautiful as Eve. Airy and etherial as a vision, and yet sharply defined amid the surrounding shadows, stood this daughter of Hindostan: I could read on her delicate brow the thought that had brought her hither.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** trip, define, stand, read, bring · **To what, where:** Hindoo maid, thicket, amid, daughter, thought, delicate brow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:92:3
# text = Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, beautiful as Eve. Airy and etherial as a vision, and yet sharply defined amid the surrounding shadows, stood this daughter of Hindostan: I could read on her delicate brow the thought that had brought her hither.
1	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	thicket	thicket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	tripped	trip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Hindoo	Hindoo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Eve.	Eve.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	Airy	Airy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	etherial	etherial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	sharply	sharply	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	defined	define	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
29	amid	amid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	shadows	shadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Hindostan	Hindostan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl:relcl	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trip** | past |  | a Hindoo maid and light |  | the thicket |  | as a gazelle; forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent maid=Theme from thicket=Trajectory |
| 2 | **define** | participle |  | amid |  |  | yet | sharply *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past |  | this daughter of Hindostan |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |
| 4 | **read** | could | I | the thought |  | Hindostan's delicate brow |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the thought |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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