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title: The clergyman's little daughter appeared to me a far lovelier rose,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The clergyman's little daughter appeared to me a far lovelier rose, as she sat on her stool under the straggling hedge, hugging and caressing her doll with the battered pasteboard cheeks. Who acts: little daughter, daughter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Third Evening, sentence 5

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The clergyman's little daughter appeared to me a far lovelier rose, as she sat on her stool under the straggling hedge, hugging and caressing her doll with the battered pasteboard cheeks.

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**Who acts:** little daughter, daughter · **What happens:** appear, sit, hug, caress, batter · **To what, where:** lovelier rose, me, stool, doll

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little daughter, daughter), 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:pg27200:94:5
# text = The clergyman's little daughter appeared to me a far lovelier rose, as she sat on her stool under the straggling hedge, hugging and caressing her doll with the battered pasteboard cheeks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clergyman	clergyman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	lovelier	lovely	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	straggling	straggling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	hugging	hug	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	caressing	caress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
33	pasteboard	pasteboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the clergyman's little daughter | a lovelier rose | me |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | daughter |  |  | daughter's stool |  | under the straggling hedge | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location |
| 3 | **hug** | gerund | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **caress** | gerund | daughter *not said here* | daughter's doll |  |  |  | with the battered pasteboard cheeks | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent doll=Theme with cheek=Instrument |
| 5 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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