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title: He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes; h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes; his mouth was made of an old broken rake, and was, of course, furnished with teeth. Who acts: Man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Man, sentence 7

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He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes; his mouth was made of an old broken rake, and was, of course, furnished with teeth.

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**Who acts:** Man · **What happens:** have, make, break, furnish · **To what, where:** two triangular pieces, head, mouth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Man. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man), 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:pg27200:169:7
# text = He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head, instead of eyes; his mouth was made of an old broken rake, and was, of course, furnished with teeth.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	triangular	triangular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tile	tile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	rake	rake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
30	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Man | two triangular pieces of tile |  | Man's head |  | instead eyes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive |  | Man's mouth |  |  |  | of a old broken rake | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **furnish** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with teeth | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: with tooth=Theme |

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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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