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title: And when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood and how green it shone, without comparison! and there was a twittering and a fluttering of all the little birds, as if the day were a great festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday. Who acts: one, corn, twittering, day. A sentence o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 3

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And when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood and how green it shone, without comparison! and there was a twittering and a fluttering of all the little birds, as if the day were a great festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday.

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**Who acts:** one, corn, twittering, day, little birds · **What happens:** look, stand, shine, be, flutter · **To what, where:** comparison, great festival

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, corn, twittering, day), 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:pg27200:2:3
# text = And when one looked at the fields, how beautifully the corn stood and how green it shone, without comparison! and there was a twittering and a fluttering of all the little birds, as if the day were a great festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
16	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	without	without	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	25	expl	_	_
25	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	twittering	twittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fluttering	fluttering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
38	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	festival	festival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
47	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
53	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
54	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | one |  |  |  |  | at the fields | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at field=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the corn |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | past | corn | comparison |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent comparison=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | a twittering and a fluttering of all little birds and a great festival |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the day | a great festival |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | past | corn |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | corn |  |  |  |  | for Sunday | tree rules |
| 8 | **flutter** |  | all little birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom fluttering «event intransitive»: of=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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