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title: It was the little chimney-sweeper, who had for the first time in his… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the little chimney-sweeper, who had for the first time in his life crept through a chimney, and stuck out his head at the top. ' Who acts: voice, little chimney sweeper, first time. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-fifth Evening, sentence 4

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It was the little chimney-sweeper, who had for the first time in his life crept through a chimney, and stuck out his head at the top. '

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**Who acts:** voice, little chimney sweeper, first time · **What happens:** be, have, creep, stick out · **To what, where:** little chimney sweeper, life, head, top

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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 (voice, little chimney sweeper, first time), 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:pg27200:116:4
# text = It was the little chimney-sweeper, who had for the first time in his life crept through a chimney, and stuck out his head at the top. '
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	sweeper	sweeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
32	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | voice | the little chimney sweeper |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the little chimney sweeper |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **creep** | past | the first time *not said here* |  |  | hip's life |  | through a chimney | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Trajectory |
| 4 | **stick out** | past | the little chimney sweeper *not said here* | hip's head |  | the top |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent head=Theme at top=Destination |

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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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