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title: The corn has a smiling look and the heaviest and richest ears bend t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The corn has a smiling look and the heaviest and richest ears bend their heads low as if in pious humility. Who acts: corn, smiling look. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 7

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The corn has a smiling look and the heaviest and richest ears bend their heads low as if in pious humility.

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**Who acts:** corn, smiling look · **What happens:** have, smile, bend · **To what, where:** heads

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corn, smiling look), 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:pg27200:14:7
# text = The corn has a smiling look and the heaviest and richest ears bend their heads low as if in pious humility.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	smiling	smile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	amod	_	_
6	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	heaviest	heavy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	conj	_	_
12	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
13	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	humility	humility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the corn |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smile** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bend** | present | a smiling look and the heaviest ears | look's heads |  |  |  | low *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |

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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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