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title: The little one used to appear, sometimes as an elf, sometimes as a p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little one used to appear, sometimes as an elf, sometimes as a page; the most difficult part she had to play was the lion's hind leg in the "Magic Flute;" but as she grew larger she could represent the fore-feet of the lion. Who acts: aunt, difficult part, little one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 94

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The little one used to appear, sometimes as an elf, sometimes as a page; the most difficult part she had to play was the lion's hind leg in the "Magic Flute;" but as she grew larger she could represent the fore-feet of the lion.

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**Who acts:** aunt, difficult part, little one · **What happens:** use, appear, have, play, be, grow · **To what, where:** little one, difficult part, hind leg, Magic Flute, fore feet

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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 (aunt, difficult part, little one), 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:pg27200:139:94
# text = The little one used to appear, sometimes as an elf, sometimes as a page; the most difficult part she had to play was the lion's hind leg in the "Magic Flute;" but as she grew larger she could represent the fore-feet of the lion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	hind	hind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Flute	Flute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
40	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	_
43	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	xcomp	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	parataxis	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | participle |  | the little one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | as a elf and a page | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | aunt | the difficult part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | the difficult part *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the little one | the lion's hind leg |  | the Magic Flute |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **grow** | past | aunt |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **represent** | could | aunt | the fore feet of the lion |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot foot=Theme |

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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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