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title: A big turbot was making himself broad in front, quietly enough, but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A big turbot was making himself broad in front, quietly enough, but not without casting some suspicious glances aside. Who acts: big turbot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 85

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A big turbot was making himself broad in front, quietly enough, but not without casting some suspicious glances aside.

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**Who acts:** big turbot · **What happens:** make, not cast · **To what, where:** turbot, suspicious glances

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big turbot), 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:pg27200:26:85
# text = A big turbot was making himself broad in front, quietly enough, but not without casting some suspicious glances aside.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	turbot	turbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	glances	glance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | a big turbot | turbot |  |  |  | broad, quietly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |
| 2 | **not** **cast** | gerund | a big turbot *not said here* | some suspicious glances |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Product |

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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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