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title: He had looked into the windows of her father's palace, both the uppe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had looked into the windows of her father's palace, both the upper and the lower windows; he had seen many things, and could therefore answer the princess, and make allusions which quite astonished her. Who acts: prince, allusions. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 205

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He had looked into the windows of her father's palace, both the upper and the lower windows; he had seen many things, and could therefore answer the princess, and make allusions which quite astonished her.

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**Who acts:** prince, allusions · **What happens:** look, see, answer, make, astonish · **To what, where:** many things, princess, allusions, Water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, allusions), 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:pg27200:165:205
# text = He had looked into the windows of her father's palace, both the upper and the lower windows; he had seen many things, and could therefore answer the princess, and make allusions which quite astonished her.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc:preconj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
36	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
38	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	astonished	astonish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · perfect | prince |  |  |  |  | into the windows of Water's father's palace | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into window=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · perfect | prince | many things |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | could | prince *not said here* |  | the princess |  |  | therefore *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | prince *not said here* | allusions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset allusion=Product |
| 5 | **astonish** | past | allusions | Water |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |

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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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