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title: Suddenly a little head emerged from one of them, and then half a bod… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly a little head emerged from one of them, and then half a body, the arms resting on the rim of the chimney-pot. ' Who acts: little head, arms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 2

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Suddenly a little head emerged from one of them, and then half a body, the arms resting on the rim of the chimney-pot. '

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**Who acts:** little head, arms · **What happens:** emerge, rest · **To what, where:** body, rim

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little head, arms), 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:pg27200:116:2
# text = Suddenly a little head emerged from one of them, and then half a body, the arms resting on the rim of the chimney-pot. '
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
29	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **emerge** | participle | a little head | half body and the arms |  |  |  | from one of words; suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from one=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **rest** | gerund | the arms *not said here* |  |  | the rim of the chimney pot |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rim=Location |

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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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