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title: The curtain shook, she looked forth, and fancied she saw a gnome or… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The curtain shook, she looked forth, and fancied she saw a gnome or some other kind of little spectre. ' Who acts: curtain, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 17

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The curtain shook, she looked forth, and fancied she saw a gnome or some other kind of little spectre. '

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**Who acts:** curtain, mother · **What happens:** shake, look, fancy, see · **To what, where:** gnome

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curtain, mother), 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:pg27200:114:17
# text = The curtain shook, she looked forth, and fancied she saw a gnome or some other kind of little spectre. '
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
23	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shake** | past | the curtain |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | past | mother |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fancy** | past | the curtain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | past | mother | a gnome or some other kind of little spectre |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gnome=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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