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title: The showman went at once to his little theatre and found that it pro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The showman went at once to his little theatre and found that it proceeded from the dolls, who all lay on the floor sighing piteously, and staring with their glass eyes; they all wanted to be rubbed with the ointment, so that, like the queen, they might be able to move of themselves. Who acts: showm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 2

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The showman went at once to his little theatre and found that it proceeded from the dolls, who all lay on the floor sighing piteously, and staring with their glass eyes; they all wanted to be rubbed with the ointment, so that, like the queen, they might be able to move of themselves.

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**Who acts:** showman, sighing, dolls, people · **What happens:** go, find, proceed, lay, sigh, stare · **To what, where:** little theatre, dolls, floor · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (showman, sighing, dolls, people), 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:pg27200:197:2
# text = The showman went at once to his little theatre and found that it proceeded from the dolls, who all lay on the floor sighing piteously, and staring with their glass eyes; they all wanted to be rubbed with the ointment, so that, like the queen, they might be able to move of themselves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	showman	showman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	sighing	sigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	advcl	_	_
26	piteously	piteously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
37	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	xcomp	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
53	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	cop	_	_
55	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the showman |  |  | showman's little theatre |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to theatre=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | the showman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | past | sighing |  |  | the dolls |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | present | the dolls |  |  | the floor |  | all *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
| 5 | **sigh** | gerund | the dolls *not said here* |  |  |  |  | piteously *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stare** | gerund | the showman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with dolls's glass eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **want** | past | people |  |  |  |  | so that | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **rub** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the ointment | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with ointment=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | might | people |  |  |  |  | like the queen; able *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **move** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme of themselves=Trajectory |

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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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