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title: Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers. Who acts: Little Tuk, all, confusion
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 46

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Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers.

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**Who acts:** Little Tuk, all, confusion · **What happens:** look, be, appear, wood, stand, confuse · **To what, where:** wooded slope, magnificent old church, colors

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Tuk, all, confusion), 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:pg1597:25:46
# text = Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon as the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Tuk	Tuk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	colors	color	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nmod	_	_
31	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	amod	_	_
32	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	advcl	_	_
43	up	up	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	above	above	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
45	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
47	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
52	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	55	nummod	_	_
53	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
54	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	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 | Little Tuk |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  | before Baggesen's eyes | red *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | all *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the confusion of colors |  |  |  |  | over, somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **appear** | past | all | a wooded slope |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location slope=Theme |
| 6 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **stand** | past | all *not said here* | a magnificent old church |  |  |  | with two high pointed towers | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer church=Stimulus |
| 8 | **confuse** |  |  | colors |  |  |  |  | nom confusion «state 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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