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title: As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; her head and shoulders were fixed on, and she could even move her limbs herself: there was now no occasion to pull the wires, for the doll acted just like a living creature, excepting that she could not speak. Who acts: back, doll, o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 116

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As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; her head and shoulders were fixed on, and she could even move her limbs herself: there was now no occasion to pull the wires, for the doll acted just like a living creature, excepting that she could not speak.

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**Who acts:** back, doll, occasion · **What happens:** do, become, fix on, move, pull, be · **To what, where:** this, head, limbs, wires · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (back, doll, occasion), 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:pg27200:196:116
# text = As soon as this was done the doll's back became quite right again; her head and shoulders were fixed on, and she could even move her limbs herself: there was now no occasion to pull the wires, for the doll acted just like a living creature, excepting that she could not speak.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
35	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
36	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
37	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
47	just	just	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	46	advcl	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
55	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **become** | past | the doll's back |  |  |  |  | right, soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fix on** | past · passive |  | back's head and shoulders |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **move** | could | back | back's limbs |  |  |  | back *obl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent limb=Theme |
| 5 | **pull** | to-infinitive | the doll *not said here* | the wires |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wire=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | the doll |  |  |  |  | like a living creature; act *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **except** | gerund | the doll *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | could | occasion |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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