--- title: They looked at one another from the crown of the head to the soles o… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They looked at one another from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet; and when matters grew to too high a pitch, then the Bachelor talked Latin, in the hope of being better understood--but it was of no use after all. Who acts: events, matters, Bachelor, matter. 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Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (events, matters, Bachelor, matter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:5:139 # text = They looked at one another from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet; and when matters grew to too high a pitch, then the Bachelor talked Latin, in the hope of being better understood--but it was of no use after all. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 4 fixed _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 soles sole NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 too too ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pitch pitch NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Bachelor bachelor NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 talked talk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 33 Latin Latin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 hope hope NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 cop _ _ 40 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 37 conj _ _ 41 understood understand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 42 -- -- PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 but but CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 48 det _ _ 48 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 advcl _ _ 49 after after ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | events *= event* | | | the crown of the head to the soles of the feet | | at one | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at one=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | matters | | | | | to a high pitch | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **talk** | past | the Bachelor | Latin | | the hope | then | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent latin=Patient | | 4 | **is** | gerund | the Bachelor *not said here* | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | matter | | | | after all | of no use | tree rules | | 6 | **crown** | | | the head to the soles of the feet | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/138/) - next →: [The Shoes of Fortune, part 2, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/6/1/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/5/)