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title: The clock struck twelve, and, with a bounce, up sprang the lid of th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The clock struck twelve, and, with a bounce, up sprang the lid of the snuff-box; but, instead of snuff, there jumped up a little black goblin; for the snuff-box was a toy puzzle. Who acts: clock, bounce, snuff. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin S
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 24

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The clock struck twelve, and, with a bounce, up sprang the lid of the snuff-box; but, instead of snuff, there jumped up a little black goblin; for the snuff-box was a toy puzzle.

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**Who acts:** clock, bounce, snuff · **What happens:** strike, spring, jump up, be · **To what, where:** twelve, lid, little black goblin, toy puzzle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, bounce, snuff), 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:pg27200:192:24
# text = The clock struck twelve, and, with a bounce, up sprang the lid of the snuff-box; but, instead of snuff, there jumped up a little black goblin; for the snuff-box was a toy puzzle.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bounce	bounce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lid	lid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	29	expl	_	_
29	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | the clock | twelve |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient |
| 2 | **spring** | past | a bounce | the lid of the snuff box |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location lid=Theme |
| 3 | **jump up** | past | snuff | a little black goblin |  | there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | a toy puzzle |  |  |  | for the snuff box | tree rules |

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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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