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title: Look yonder, and you will see in every window three clerks and a hea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Look yonder, and you will see in every window three clerks and a head clerk; and the old head clerk is the worst of all, for he can't understand anything." Who acts: you, old head clerk, dish. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 93

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Look yonder, and you will see in every window three clerks and a head clerk; and the old head clerk is the worst of all, for he can't understand anything."

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**Who acts:** you, old head clerk, dish · **What happens:** look, see, be, not understand · **To what, where:** three clerks, window, anything

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old head clerk, dish), 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:pg27200:28:93
# text = Look yonder, and you will see in every window three clerks and a head clerk; and the old head clerk is the worst of all, for he can't understand anything."
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	clerks	clerk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	parataxis	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
34	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | yonder *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | future | you | three clerks and a head clerk |  | every window |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clerk=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | the old head clerk |  |  |  |  | of all; bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **understand** | can | dish | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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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