--- title: And then she stuck out her pretty little arms, and made the elbows q… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And then she stuck out her pretty little arms, and made the elbows quite pointed, to show how it was to be done; and her little arms were very pretty, for she was a sweet-looking child. Who acts: elbow, little arms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Children's Prattle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/) / 13 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Children's Prattle, sentence 13 And then she stuck out her pretty little arms, and made the elbows quite pointed, to show how it was to be done; and her little arms were very pretty, for she was a sweet-looking child. **Who acts:** elbow, little arms · **What happens:** stick out, make, show, do, be, look · **To what, where:** little arms, elbows, akimbo · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Children's Prattle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elbow, little arms), 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:pg27200:18:13 # text = And then she stuck out her pretty little arms, and made the elbows quite pointed, to show how it was to be done; and her little arms were very pretty, for she was a sweet-looking child. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 out out ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 elbows elbow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 quite quite ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 pointed pointed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 20 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 31 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 very very ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 amod _ _ 42 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick out** | past | elbow | elbow's little arms | | | then | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 2 | **make** | past | elbow *not said here* | the elbows | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset elbow=Product | | 3 | **show** | to-infinitive | elbow *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **do** | past · passive | | akimbo | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | past | elbow's little arms | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **look** | gerund | | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** | past | elbow | | | | | for a looking child | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/14/) - ↑ back to [Children's Prattle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/18/)