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title: And then he glanced at a curious round thing like an old apple, whic… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then he glanced at a curious round thing like an old apple, which lay near a long, leafless cabbage-stalk. Who acts: set, old apple. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 37

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And then he glanced at a curious round thing like an old apple, which lay near a long, leafless cabbage-stalk.

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**Who acts:** set, old apple · **What happens:** glance, lie · **To what, where:** long leafless cabbage stalk

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (set, old apple), 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:pg27200:195:37
# text = And then he glanced at a curious round thing like an old apple, which lay near a long, leafless cabbage-stalk.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	leafless	leafless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glance** | past | set |  |  |  | then | at a curious round thing like a old apple | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at thing=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | a old apple |  |  | a long leafless cabbage stalk |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near stalk=Location |

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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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