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title: When she afterwards brought out the picture book, he said, "It was o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When she afterwards brought out the picture book, he said, "It was only fit for babies in long clothes," and when grandmother told any stories, he would interrupt her with "but;" or, when he could manage it, he would get behind her chair, put on a pair of spectacles, and imitate her very cleverly, t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Little Boy and a Little Girl, sentence 50

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When she afterwards brought out the picture book, he said, "It was only fit for babies in long clothes," and when grandmother told any stories, he would interrupt her with "but;" or, when he could manage it, he would get behind her chair, put on a pair of spectacles, and imitate her very cleverly, to make people laugh.

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**Who acts:** girl, glass, book, grandmother, people · **What happens:** bring out, say, be, tell, interrupt, manage · **To what, where:** picture book, stories, girl, book, chair, pair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (girl, glass, book, grandmother), 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:pg27200:171:50
# text = When she afterwards brought out the picture book, he said, "It was only fit for babies in long clothes," and when grandmother told any stories, he would interrupt her with "but;" or, when he could manage it, he would get behind her chair, put on a pair of spectacles, and imitate her very cleverly, to make people laugh.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
35	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
45	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	parataxis	_	_
52	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl	_	_
57	on	on	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	imitate	imitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
65	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	obj	_	_
66	very	very	ADV	RB	_	67	advmod	_	_
67	cleverly	cleverly	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	to	to	PART	TO	_	70	mark	_	_
70	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	conj	_	_
71	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	70	obj	_	_
72	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring out** | past | girl | the picture book |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent book=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | book |  |  |  |  | for babies in long clothes; fit *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | grandmother | any stories |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
| 5 | **interrupt** | would | glass | girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **manage** | could | glass | book |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | would | glass |  |  | girl's chair |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **put** | participle |  | girl's chair *not said here* |  | a pair of spectacles |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on pair=Destination |
| 9 | **imitate** | infinitive | glass *not said here* | girl |  |  |  | cleverly *property* | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 10 | **make** | to-infinitive | glass *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **laugh** | infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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