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title: One evening, when little Kay was at home, half undressed, he climbed… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening, when little Kay was at home, half undressed, he climbed on a chair by the window and peeped out through the little hole. Who acts: little Kay, window. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 24

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One evening, when little Kay was at home, half undressed, he climbed on a chair by the window and peeped out through the little hole.

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**Who acts:** little Kay, window · **What happens:** be, undress, climb, peep out · **To what, where:** home, half, chair

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Kay, window), 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:pg27200:171:24
# text = One evening, when little Kay was at home, half undressed, he climbed on a chair by the window and peeped out through the little hole.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	conj	_	_
12	undressed	undress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | little Kay |  |  | home and half |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **undress** | participle |  | half *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **climb** | past | window |  |  | a chair | evening | by the window | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chair=Trajectory |
| 4 | **peep out** | participle | window *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the little hole | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through hole=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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