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title: And then he touched Hjalmar with his magic wand, whereupon he became… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he touched Hjalmar with his magic wand, whereupon he became less and less, until at last he was not longer than a little finger. " Who acts: Ole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 100

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And then he touched Hjalmar with his magic wand, whereupon he became less and less, until at last he was not longer than a little finger. "

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**Who acts:** Ole · **What happens:** touch, become, be · **To what, where:** Hjalmar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ole), 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:pg27200:134:100
# text = And then he touched Hjalmar with his magic wand, whereupon he became less and less, until at last he was not longer than a little finger. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Hjalmar	Hjalmar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	until	until	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
25	than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | Ole | Hjalmar |  |  | then | with Ole's magic wand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hjalmar=Experiencer with wand=Instrument |
| 2 | **become** | past | Ole |  |  |  |  | last, less, whereupon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Ole |  |  |  |  | than a little finger; long *property* | 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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