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title: His experiments were quite miracles on a small scale, and yet the ex… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: His experiments were quite miracles on a small scale, and yet the explanations flowed as naturally as water from his lips. Who acts: experiments, explanations, span. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Puppet-show Man, sentence 14

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His experiments were quite miracles on a small scale, and yet the explanations flowed as naturally as water from his lips.

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**Who acts:** experiments, explanations, span · **What happens:** be, flow, experiment · **To what, where:** quite miracles, small scale, lips

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Puppet-show Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experiments, explanations, span), 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:pg27200:152:14
# text = His experiments were quite miracles on a small scale, and yet the explanations flowed as naturally as water from his lips.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	experiments	experiment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	miracles	miracle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	scale	scale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	explanations	explanation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | span's experiments | quite miracles |  | a small scale |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | past | the explanations |  |  | span's lips | yet | as water; naturally *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **experiment** |  | span |  |  |  |  |  | nom experiment «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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