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title: On the left, just where the heart is, the gingerbread man had an alm… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the left, just where the heart is, the gingerbread man had an almond stuck in to represent it, but the maiden was honey cake all over. Who acts: heart, gingerbread man, maiden. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its depend
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 25

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On the left, just where the heart is, the gingerbread man had an almond stuck in to represent it, but the maiden was honey cake all over.

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**Who acts:** heart, gingerbread man, maiden · **What happens:** be, have, stick in, represent · **To what, where:** almond, left, honey cake

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (heart, gingerbread man, maiden), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:13833`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:202:25
# text = On the left, just where the heart is, the gingerbread man had an almond stuck in to represent it, but the maiden was honey cake all over.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	gingerbread	gingerbread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	almond	almond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	stuck	stick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	represent	represent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | the heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | the gingerbread man | a almond |  | the left |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent almond=Patient |
| 3 | **stick in** | participle |  | a almond *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **represent** | to-infinitive |  | almond |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | past | maiden | the honey cake |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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