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title: There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms stretched painfully straight out away from the dress, and her fingers apart; and oh, what happiness beamed from her eyes, and from her whole countenance! ' Who acts: happiness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» b
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, sentence 4

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There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms stretched painfully straight out away from the dress, and her fingers apart; and oh, what happiness beamed from her eyes, and from her whole countenance! '

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**Who acts:** happiness · **What happens:** stand, stretch, beam · **To what, where:** little maid, arms, eyes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (happiness), 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:pg27200:107:4
# text = There stood the little maid, stiff and upright as a doll, her arms stretched painfully straight out away from the dress, and her fingers apart; and oh, what happiness beamed from her eyes, and from her whole countenance! '
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	upright	upright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	painfully	painfully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
28	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	parataxis	_	_
34	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	beamed	beam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
46	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the little maid |  | there |  | bride's fingers *obl* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle · passive |  | bride's arms |  |  |  | away, painfully *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **beam** | past | happiness |  |  | bride's eyes |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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