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title: Just as often as the boy in the little room turned the spinning whee… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as often as the boy in the little room turned the spinning wheel had the great wheel murmured, before the age could again call forth marble gods equal to those he afterwards formed. Who acts: boy, spinning wheel, great wheel, age. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 29

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Just as often as the boy in the little room turned the spinning wheel had the great wheel murmured, before the age could again call forth marble gods equal to those he afterwards formed.

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**Who acts:** boy, spinning wheel, great wheel, age, wheel · **What happens:** turn, have, murmur, call, form · **To what, where:** marble gods · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (boy, spinning wheel, great wheel, age), 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:pg27200:114:29
# text = Just as often as the boy in the little room turned the spinning wheel had the great wheel murmured, before the age could again call forth marble gods equal to those he afterwards formed.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
30	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past | the boy in the little room |  |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the spinning wheel |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the great wheel |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | could | the age |  | marble gods |  | again | equal, forth *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent god=Recipient |
| 5 | **form** | past | wheel |  |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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