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title: Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers o… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial. Who acts: place. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 50

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Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial.

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**Who acts:** place · **What happens:** hasten away, prove, seem, fit · **To what, where:** little magician, powers, magician, place

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place), 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:pg1597:7:50
# text = Well pleased the little magician hastened away to prove the powers of the spectacles in the theatre; no place seeming to him more fitted for such a trial.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
25	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten away** | participle |  | the little magician *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive |  | the powers of the spectacles in the theatre |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | gerund | no place *not said here* |  | magician |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fit** | participle · passive |  | no place |  |  |  | for such trial | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=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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