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title: The man to whom the show belonged was quite delighted at having a do… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The man to whom the show belonged was quite delighted at having a doll who could dance of herself without being pulled by the wires; none of the other dolls could do this. Who acts: show, man, doll, wires. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Compa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 117

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The man to whom the show belonged was quite delighted at having a doll who could dance of herself without being pulled by the wires; none of the other dolls could do this.

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**Who acts:** show, man, doll, wires, none · **What happens:** belong, be, have, dance, pull, do · **To what, where:** doll, this

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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 (show, man, doll, wires), 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:pg27200:196:117
# text = The man to whom the show belonged was quite delighted at having a doll who could dance of herself without being pulled by the wires; none of the other dolls could do this.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	nmod	_	_
20	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wires	wire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
32	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the show |  |  |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the man *not said here* | a doll and dance |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doll=Patient |
| 4 | **dance** | could | a doll and dance |  |  |  |  | of show | tree rules |
| 5 | **pull** | gerund · passive | the wires |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **do** | could | none | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |

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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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