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title: The chimney-sweep and the little shepherdess looked piteously at the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The chimney-sweep and the little shepherdess looked piteously at the old Chinaman, for they were afraid he might nod; but he was not able: besides, it was so tiresome to be always telling strangers he had a rivet in the back of his neck. Who acts: chimney sweep, lovers, grandfather, reason. A senten
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 80

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The chimney-sweep and the little shepherdess looked piteously at the old Chinaman, for they were afraid he might nod; but he was not able: besides, it was so tiresome to be always telling strangers he had a rivet in the back of his neck.

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**Who acts:** chimney sweep, lovers, grandfather, reason · **What happens:** look, be, nod, not be, have · **To what, where:** besides, strangers, rivet, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chimney sweep, lovers, grandfather, reason), 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:pg27200:166:80
# text = The chimney-sweep and the little shepherdess looked piteously at the old Chinaman, for they were afraid he might nod; but he was not able: besides, it was so tiresome to be always telling strangers he had a rivet in the back of his neck.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	piteously	piteously	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	nod	nod	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
30	besides	beside	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	acl	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	cop	_	_
38	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	39	advmod	_	_
39	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	advcl	_	_
40	strangers	stranger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	iobj	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	ccomp	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rivet	rivet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the chimney sweep and the little shepherdess |  |  |  |  | at the old Chinaman; piteously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at chinaman=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | lovers *= lover* |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **nod** | might | grandfather |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | grandfather |  |  |  |  | besides *obl*; able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | reason | besides *not said here* |  |  |  | tiresome *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | reason *not said here* |  | strangers |  |  | always, tell *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | past | grandfather | a rivet |  | the back of grandfather's neck |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Patient |

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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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