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title: "No! the poor little ones are playing with light, childish spirits. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "No! the poor little ones are playing with light, childish spirits. Who acts: poor little ones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 13

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"No! the poor little ones are playing with light, childish spirits.

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**Who acts:** poor little ones · **What happens:** play · **To what, where:** childish spirits

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor little ones), 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:pg27200:3:13
# text = "No! the poor little ones are playing with light, childish spirits.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the poor little ones | childish spirits |  |  |  | with light | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with light=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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