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title: She had eaten the hearts of five children, and had imagined that if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had eaten the hearts of five children, and had imagined that if she could obtain two more she would be able to fly and make herself invisible. Who acts: staircase. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 31

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She had eaten the hearts of five children, and had imagined that if she could obtain two more she would be able to fly and make herself invisible.

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**Who acts:** staircase · **What happens:** eat, imagine, obtain, be, fly, make · **To what, where:** hearts, staircase

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase), 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:pg27200:161:31
# text = She had eaten the hearts of five children, and had imagined that if she could obtain two more she would be able to fly and make herself invisible.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | staircase | the hearts of five children |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 2 | **imagine** | past · perfect | staircase *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **obtain** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | staircase |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | staircase |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fly** | to-infinitive | staircase *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **make** | infinitive | staircase *not said here* | staircase |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset herself=Product |

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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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