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title: Thousands of people gazed at the balloon, and the old maid who was i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Thousands of people gazed at the balloon, and the old maid who was in the garden saw it also; for she stood at the open window of the garret, by which hung the cage containing the linnet, who then had no water-glass, but was obliged to be contented with an old cup. Who acts: Thousands, old maid, mai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 128

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Thousands of people gazed at the balloon, and the old maid who was in the garden saw it also; for she stood at the open window of the garret, by which hung the cage containing the linnet, who then had no water-glass, but was obliged to be contented with an old cup.

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**Who acts:** Thousands, old maid, maid, linnet · **What happens:** gaze, see, stand, hang, contain, have · **To what, where:** balloon, open window, cage, linnet, water glass

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thousands, old maid, maid, linnet), 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:pg27200:13:128
# text = Thousands of people gazed at the balloon, and the old maid who was in the garden saw it also; for she stood at the open window of the garret, by which hung the cage containing the linnet, who then had no water-glass, but was obliged to be contented with an old cup.
1	Thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	balloon	balloon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	linnet	linnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	44	advmod	_	_
44	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	48	det	_	_
46	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux:pass	_	_
52	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux:pass	_	_
55	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	xcomp	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | Thousands of people |  |  |  |  | at the balloon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at balloon=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | the old maid | balloon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | past | maid |  |  | the open window of the garret |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 4 | **hang** | past |  | the cage |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient |
| 5 | **contain** | gerund |  | the linnet |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot linnet=Theme |
| 6 | **have** | past | the linnet | no water glass |  |  | then |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Patient |
| 7 | **oblige** | past · passive | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: clause=Result |
| 8 | **content** | to-infinitive · passive | maid *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a old cup | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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