--- title: Up in a little room with a bow window, stands a little dancing girl,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Up in a little room with a bow window, stands a little dancing girl, half undressed; she stands sometimes on one leg, and sometimes on both, and looks as if she would tread the whole world under her feet. Who acts: little dancing girl, grandmother. 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C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little dancing girl, grandmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:172:127 # text = Up in a little room with a bow window, stands a little dancing girl, half undressed; she stands sometimes on one leg, and sometimes on both, and looks as if she would tread the whole world under her feet. 1 Up up ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 11 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 dancing dancing NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 18 advmod _ _ 18 undressed undress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 22 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 21 advmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 tread tread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 42 under under ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | a little dancing girl | | | both | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on both=Location | | 2 | **undress** | participle | a little dancing girl *not said here* | | | | | half *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stand** | present | grandmother | | | one leg | | sometimes *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location | | 4 | **look** | present | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **tread** | would | grandmother | the whole world | | grandmother's feet | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/128/) - ↑ back to [The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/172/)