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title: But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he loo… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Bell, sentence 44

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But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.

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**Who acts:** poor child, son · **What happens:** confirm, be, look, pull, say, not walk · **To what, where:** poor child, wooden shoes, bell, place, sorts, beautiful things · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor child, son), 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:pg1597:18:44
# text = But the poor child that had been confirmed was quite ashamed; he looked at his wooden shoes, pulled at the short sleeves of his jacket, and said that he was afraid he could not walk so fast; besides, he thought that the bell must be looked for to the right; for that was the place where all sorts of beautiful things were to be found.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	confirmed	confirm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	ccomp	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	besides	besides	INTJ	UH	_	45	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
50	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	ccomp	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	61	punct	_	_
57	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	61	obl	_	_
59	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
62	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	71	advmod	_	_
63	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	64	det	_	_
64	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	71	nsubj:pass	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	64	nmod	_	_
68	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	71	aux:pass	_	_
69	to	to	PART	TO	_	71	mark	_	_
70	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	71	aux:pass	_	_
71	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	61	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confirm** | past · perfect · passive |  | the poor child |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | the poor child |  |  |  |  | ashamed *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | past | son |  |  |  |  | at son's wooden shoes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shoe=Theme |
| 4 | **pull** | participle |  | son's wooden shoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | son |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **walk** | could | son |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 9 | **look** | must · passive |  | the bell |  |  |  | for the right | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 10 | **is a** | past |  | the place |  |  |  | for that | tree rules |
| 11 | **find** | past · passive | the poor child *not said here* | all sorts of beautiful things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 12 | **sort** |  |  | beautiful things |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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