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title: She said neither "thanks" nor "creak," but she looked down upon the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She said neither "thanks" nor "creak," but she looked down upon the little boy with her mild eyes; and then he said to the old man, Who acts: piece, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 47

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She said neither "thanks" nor "creak," but she looked down upon the little boy with her mild eyes; and then he said to the old man,

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**Who acts:** piece, boy · **What happens:** say, look down · **To what, where:** old man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece, boy), 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:pg27200:131:47
# text = She said neither "thanks" nor "creak," but she looked down upon the little boy with her mild eyes; and then he said to the old man,
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc:preconj	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	creak	creak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | piece |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look down** | past | piece |  |  |  |  | upon the little boy with piece's mild eyes; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon boy=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | boy |  | the old man |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |

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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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