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title: You know she always dances when she hears music and singing of any s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: You know she always dances when she hears music and singing of any sort; so she began to dance immediately, although she ought not to have done so, but she could not get into the right time because the tune was so slow; so she stood first on one leg and then on the other, and bent her head very low,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 91

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You know she always dances when she hears music and singing of any sort; so she began to dance immediately, although she ought not to have done so, but she could not get into the right time because the tune was so slow; so she stood first on one leg and then on the other, and bent her head very low, but it would not suit the music.

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**Who acts:** You, sister, tune · **What happens:** know, dance, hear, sing, begin, not do · **To what, where:** music, one leg, head · **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 (You, sister, tune), 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:pg27200:131:91
# text = You know she always dances when she hears music and singing of any sort; so she began to dance immediately, although she ought not to have done so, but she could not get into the right time because the tune was so slow; so she stood first on one leg and then on the other, and bent her head very low, but it would not suit the music.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	dances	dance	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	aux	_	_
29	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	so	so	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
51	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	50	advmod	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	54	nummod	_	_
54	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	conj	_	_
63	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	very	very	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
68	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
69	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	72	nsubj	_	_
70	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	72	aux	_	_
71	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	72	advmod	_	_
72	suit	suit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dance** | present | sister |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | present | sister | music |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of any sort | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **dance** | to-infinitive | sister *not said here* |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **do** | ought · perfect | sister |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **not** **get** | could | sister |  |  |  | time |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **is** | past | the tune |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **stand** | past | sister |  |  | one leg |  | first *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |
| 11 | **bend** | past | sister *not said here* | sister's head |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
| 12 | **not** **suit** | would | tune | the music |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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