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title: The doll must certainly have been crying too, for she stretched out… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The doll must certainly have been crying too, for she stretched out her arms among the green branches, and looked quite mournful. Who acts: doll, Moon. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-first Evening, sentence 7

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The doll must certainly have been crying too, for she stretched out her arms among the green branches, and looked quite mournful.

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**Who acts:** doll, Moon · **What happens:** cry, stretch out, look · **To what, where:** arms

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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 (doll, Moon), 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:pg27200:112:7
# text = The doll must certainly have been crying too, for she stretched out her arms among the green branches, and looked quite mournful.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
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	12	obj	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | must · perfect · progressive | the doll |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stretch out** | past | Moon | Moon's arms |  |  |  | among the green branches | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 3 | **look** | past | Moon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mournful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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