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title: They crept in, but it was so terribly hot inside that that woman wor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They crept in, but it was so terribly hot inside that that woman wore scarcely any clothes; she was small and very dirty looking. Who acts: Flash, hut, woman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, with its dependency tree a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman, sentence 12

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They crept in, but it was so terribly hot inside that that woman wore scarcely any clothes; she was small and very dirty looking.

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**Who acts:** Flash, hut, woman · **What happens:** creep in, be, wear, look · **To what, where:** clothes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Lapland Woman and the Finland Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Flash, hut, woman), 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:pg27200:175:12
# text = They crept in, but it was so terribly hot inside that that woman wore scarcely any clothes; she was small and very dirty looking.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
11	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
26	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep in** | past | Flash |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | hut |  |  |  |  | hot, inside, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past | that woman | any clothes |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
| 4 | **is** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | gerund | woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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