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title: At the top she is narrow, and has a stick passed across through her… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the top she is narrow, and has a stick passed across through her waist, and this stick forms the arms of the maiden. Who acts: maiden, stick. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Two Maidens, sentence 4

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At the top she is narrow, and has a stick passed across through her waist, and this stick forms the arms of the maiden.

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**Who acts:** maiden, stick · **What happens:** be, have, pass, form · **To what, where:** top, stick, waist, arms

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Two Maidens. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, stick), 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:pg27200:200:4
# text = At the top she is narrow, and has a stick passed across through her waist, and this stick forms the arms of the maiden.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	across	across	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | maiden |  |  | the top |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a stick |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient |
| 3 | **pass** | participle |  | a stick *not said here* |  | maiden's waist |  | across *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through waist=Location |
| 4 | **form** | present | this stick | the arms of the maiden |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme |

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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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