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title: Dolls that looked for all the world like men--the Tree had never beh… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dolls that looked for all the world like men--the Tree had never beheld such before--were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed. Who acts: Dolls, Tree. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 76

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Dolls that looked for all the world like men--the Tree had never beheld such before--were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed.

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**Who acts:** Dolls, Tree · **What happens:** look, not behold, see, fix · **To what, where:** large star

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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 (Dolls, Tree), 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:pg1597:10:76
# text = Dolls that looked for all the world like men--the Tree had never beheld such before--were seen among the foliage, and at the very top a large star of gold tinsel was fixed.
1	Dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	beheld	behold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	xcomp	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Dolls |  |  |  |  | for all world; like men | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **behold** | past · perfect | the Tree |  |  |  |  | such *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | among the foliage | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 4 | **fix** | past · passive |  | a large star *not said here* |  |  |  | of gold tinsel | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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