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title: Look at these Chinese," and then the whole umbrella appeared like a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Look at these Chinese," and then the whole umbrella appeared like a large china bowl, with blue trees and pointed bridges, upon which stood little Chinamen nodding their heads. " Who acts: you, whole umbrella, little Chinamen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 164

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Look at these Chinese," and then the whole umbrella appeared like a large china bowl, with blue trees and pointed bridges, upon which stood little Chinamen nodding their heads. "

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**Who acts:** you, whole umbrella, little Chinamen · **What happens:** look, appear, stand, nod · **To what, where:** little Chinamen, heads

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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 (you, whole umbrella, little Chinamen), 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:pg27200:134:164
# text = Look at these Chinese," and then the whole umbrella appeared like a large china bowl, with blue trees and pointed bridges, upon which stood little Chinamen nodding their heads. "
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	pointed	pointed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	bridges	bridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	Chinamen	chinaman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	nodding	nod	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at this Chinese | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at chinese=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** *in a quote* | past | the whole umbrella |  |  |  | then | like a large china bowl and blue trees and pointed bridges | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** *in a quote* | past |  | little Chinamen |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chinaman=Stimulus |
| 4 | **nod** *in a quote* | gerund | little Chinamen *not said here* | Chinamen's heads |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |

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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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