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title: Then the little ship that hung from the roof of the choir was let do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the little ship that hung from the roof of the choir was let down and looked wonderfully large and beautiful with its silken sails and rigging: Who acts: little ship. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 10

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Then the little ship that hung from the roof of the choir was let down and looked wonderfully large and beautiful with its silken sails and rigging:

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**Who acts:** little ship · **What happens:** hang, let down, look, rig · **To what, where:** roof, little ship

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little ship), 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:pg27200:163:10
# text = Then the little ship that hung from the roof of the choir was let down and looked wonderfully large and beautiful with its silken sails and rigging:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	choir	choir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	wonderfully	wonderfully	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	rigging	rig	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the little ship |  |  | the roof of the choir |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let down** | past · passive |  | the little ship |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | large *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rig** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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