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title: She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with their… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with their high-crowned hats, sitting in the bushes; and further back in the long walk, tall spectres appeared to be dancing. Who acts: maid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 13

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She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with their high-crowned hats, sitting in the bushes; and further back in the long walk, tall spectres appeared to be dancing.

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**Who acts:** maid · **What happens:** fancy, see, crown, sit, appear, dance · **To what, where:** little gnomes, bushes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maid), 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:pg27200:112:13
# text = She could almost fancy she distinctly saw little gnomes, with their high-crowned hats, sitting in the bushes; and further back in the long walk, tall spectres appeared to be dancing.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gnomes	gnome	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	further	further	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	spectres	spectre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | could | maid |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | maid | little gnomes |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gnome=Stimulus |
| 3 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | maid *not said here* |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |
| 5 | **appear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dance** | to-infinitive · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «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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