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description: And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it. Who acts: sun, Narcissus. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 132

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And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it.

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**Who acts:** sun, Narcissus · **What happens:** tuck up, enable, run, give, go, jump · **To what, where:** frock, sun, knock, leg

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Narcissus), 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:pg1597:12:132
# text = And she tucked up her frock, to enable her to run quicker; but the Narcissus gave her a knock on the leg, just as she was going to jump over it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	quicker	quick	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Narcissus	Narcissus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knock	knock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tuck up** | past | sun | sun's frock |  |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frock=Theme |
| 2 | **enable** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quick *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | the Narcissus | a knock | sun | the leg |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent she=Recipient knock=Theme on leg=Asset |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | Narcissus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **jump** | to-infinitive | Narcissus *not said here* |  |  | knock |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory |

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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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