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title: And here is my old sweetheart 'Ba;'" and she dragged out a reindeer… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And here is my old sweetheart 'Ba;'" and she dragged out a reindeer by the horn; he wore a bright copper ring round his neck, and was tied up. " Who acts: old sweetheart, Ba, chimney. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Robber-girl, sentence 31

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And here is my old sweetheart 'Ba;'" and she dragged out a reindeer by the horn; he wore a bright copper ring round his neck, and was tied up. "

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**Who acts:** old sweetheart, Ba, chimney · **What happens:** be, drag out, wear, tie up · **To what, where:** reindeer, bright copper ring · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Robber-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old sweetheart, Ba, chimney), 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:pg27200:174:31
# text = And here is my old sweetheart 'Ba;'" and she dragged out a reindeer by the horn; he wore a bright copper ring round his neck, and was tied up. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Ba	Ba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	round	round	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | my old sweetheart |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **drag out** *in a quote* | past | Ba | a reindeer |  |  |  | by the horn | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reindeer=Theme |
| 3 | **wear** *in a quote* | past | chimney | a bright copper ring |  |  |  | round chimney's neck | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 4 | **tie up** *in a quote* | past · passive | chimney *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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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