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title: In the middle of the floor stood the tame crow, turning her head fro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the floor stood the tame crow, turning her head from side to side, and gazing at Gerda, who curtseyed as her grandmother had taught her to do. Who acts: Gerda, grandmother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 80

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In the middle of the floor stood the tame crow, turning her head from side to side, and gazing at Gerda, who curtseyed as her grandmother had taught her to do.

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**Who acts:** Gerda, grandmother · **What happens:** stand, turn, gaze, curtsey, teach, do · **To what, where:** tame crow, middle, head, side, grandmother, Gerda

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, 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:pg27200:173:80
# text = In the middle of the floor stood the tame crow, turning her head from side to side, and gazing at Gerda, who curtseyed as her grandmother had taught her to do.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	tame	tame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	curtseyed	curtsey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	ccomp	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | the tame crow |  | the middle of the floor |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crow=Theme in middle=Destination |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund |  | crow's head |  | side |  | to side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Source to side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | at Gerda | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gerda=Theme |
| 4 | **curtsey** | past | Gerda |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | Gerda's grandmother | Gerda |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | Gerda's grandmother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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