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title: He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see aga… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see again, and the words of the song sounded in his ears-- Who acts: paper, words. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 55

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He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see again, and the words of the song sounded in his ears--

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**Who acts:** paper, words · **What happens:** think, not see, sound, word · **To what, where:** elegant little dancer, ears, song

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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 (paper, words), 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:pg27200:192:55
# text = He thought of the elegant little dancer whom he should never see again, and the words of the song sounded in his ears--
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dancer	dancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | paper |  |  |  |  | of the elegant little dancer | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **see** | should | paper | the elegant little dancer |  |  | again |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sound** | past | the words of the song |  |  | paper's ears |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the song |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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