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title: The hat was on the head now, which made it very dark, and the little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hat was on the head now, which made it very dark, and the little elf shuddered with fright and indignation at the wicked deed. Who acts: hat, head, little elf. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 36

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The hat was on the head now, which made it very dark, and the little elf shuddered with fright and indignation at the wicked deed.

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**Who acts:** hat, head, little elf · **What happens:** be, make, shudder · **To what, where:** head, hat

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hat, head, little elf), 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:pg27200:30:36
# text = The hat was on the head now, which made it very dark, and the little elf shuddered with fright and indignation at the wicked deed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shuddered	shudder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hat |  |  | the head | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | the head | hat |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
| 3 | **shudder** | participle | the little elf |  |  |  |  | with fright and indignation; at the wicked deed | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at deed=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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