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title: She had on each hand five fingers, and anything so conceited as thes… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had on each hand five fingers, and anything so conceited as these five fingers I have never seen; and yet they were only employed to take me out of the box and to put me back again." Who acts: box, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 33

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She had on each hand five fingers, and anything so conceited as these five fingers I have never seen; and yet they were only employed to take me out of the box and to put me back again."

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**Who acts:** box, I · **What happens:** have, not see, employ, take, put back · **To what, where:** five fingers, hand, fingers, me, box

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, I), 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:pg27200:21:33
# text = She had on each hand five fingers, and anything so conceited as these five fingers I have never seen; and yet they were only employed to take me out of the box and to put me back again."
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	parataxis	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	conceited	conceited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
26	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	employed	employ	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
38	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	back	back	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
40	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | box | five fingers |  | each hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | I | this five fingers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus |
| 3 | **employ** | past · passive |  | fingers *= finger* |  |  | yet |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive |  | me |  | the box |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out box=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **put back** | to-infinitive |  |  | me |  | again |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |

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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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