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title: First, the little round naked shoulder comes creeping out of the fro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: First, the little round naked shoulder comes creeping out of the frock, then the arm; or I see how the stocking is drawn off, and a plump little white leg makes its appearance, and a white little foot that is fit to be kissed, and I kiss it too. Who acts: little round naked shoulder, I, plump little
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 4

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First, the little round naked shoulder comes creeping out of the frock, then the arm; or I see how the stocking is drawn off, and a plump little white leg makes its appearance, and a white little foot that is fit to be kissed, and I kiss it too.

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**Who acts:** little round naked shoulder, I, plump little white leg, white little foot · **What happens:** come, creep out, see, draw off, make, be · **To what, where:** frock, stocking, appearance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second 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 round naked shoulder, I, plump little white leg, white little foot), 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:pg27200:123:4
# text = First, the little round naked shoulder comes creeping out of the frock, then the arm; or I see how the stocking is drawn off, and a plump little white leg makes its appearance, and a white little foot that is fit to be kissed, and I kiss it too.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stocking	stocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	acl:relcl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	kiss	kiss	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	too	too	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | the little round naked shoulder |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep out** | gerund | the little round naked shoulder *not said here* | the frock and the arm |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location frock=Theme |
| 3 | **see** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **draw off** | present · passive |  | the stocking |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | present | a plump little white leg | leg's appearance |  |  |  | a white little foot *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset appearance=Product |
| 6 | **is** | present | a white little foot |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **kiss** | to-infinitive · passive | a white little foot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V» |
| 8 | **kiss** | present | I | appearance |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |

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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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