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title: He looked down from above on the 'Judgment of Solomon,' and fell asl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked down from above on the 'Judgment of Solomon,' and fell asleep over it. Who acts: Judgment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 52

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He looked down from above on the 'Judgment of Solomon,' and fell asleep over it.

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**Who acts:** Judgment · **What happens:** look down, fall, judge · **To what, where:** Judgment, stuff, Solomon

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Judgment), 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:pg27200:139:52
# text = He looked down from above on the 'Judgment of Solomon,' and fell asleep over it.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	above	above	ADV	RB	_	2	obl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | past | Judgment |  |  | the Judgment of Solomon |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from above=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Judgment *not said here* |  |  | stuff |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over it=Location |
| 3 | **judge** |  |  | Solomon |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=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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