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title: All around the bed and peeping through the long velvet curtains, wer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All around the bed and peeping through the long velvet curtains, were a number of strange heads, some very ugly, and others lovely and gentle-looking. Who acts: peeping. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 120

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All around the bed and peeping through the long velvet curtains, were a number of strange heads, some very ugly, and others lovely and gentle-looking.

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**Who acts:** peeping · **What happens:** peep, be, look · **To what, where:** number

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peeping), 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:pg27200:125:120
# text = All around the bed and peeping through the long velvet curtains, were a number of strange heads, some very ugly, and others lovely and gentle-looking.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	csubj	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | through the long velvet curtains; all *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through curtain=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | peeping | a number |  |  |  | of strange heads | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | gerund | peeping *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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