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title: And the little pot steamed, and the great pot simmered, but without… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the little pot steamed, and the great pot simmered, but without any regard for each; indeed there seemed no sense in the pots at all. Who acts: little pot, great pot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travel
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels, sentence 64

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And the little pot steamed, and the great pot simmered, but without any regard for each; indeed there seemed no sense in the pots at all.

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**Who acts:** little pot, great pot · **What happens:** steam, simmer, seem · **To what, where:** sense, pots

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the First Little Mouse Saw and Heard on Her Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little pot, great pot), 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:pg27200:179:64
# text = And the little pot steamed, and the great pot simmered, but without any regard for each; indeed there seemed no sense in the pots at all.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	steamed	steam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	simmered	simmer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steam** | participle | the little pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **simmer** | participle | the great pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  | no sense |  | the pots at all; there |  | without any regard for each | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sense=Attribute |

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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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