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title: A story!” cried the children, drawing a little fat man towards the T… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A story!” cried the children, drawing a little fat man towards the Tree. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 105

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A story!” cried the children, drawing a little fat man towards the Tree.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** cry, draw · **To what, where:** children, little fat man

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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:pg1597:10:105
# text = A story!” cried the children, drawing a little fat man towards the Tree.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | a story | the children |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
| 2 | **draw** *in a quote* | gerund | a story *not said here* | a little fat man |  |  |  | towards the Tree | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme towards tree=Destination |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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