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title: The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they da… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things. Who acts: elfin maidens, invitations, mist. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 21

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The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things.

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**Who acts:** elfin maidens, invitations, mist · **What happens:** dance, weave, look, like · **To what, where:** elf hill, shawls, moonshine, such things

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elfin maidens, invitations, mist), 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:pg27200:31:21
# text = The elfin maidens we're already dancing on the elf hill, and they danced in shawls woven from moonshine and mist, which look very pretty to those who like such things.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	elfin	elfin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	already	already	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	shawls	shawl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	moonshine	moonshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | present · progressive | the elfin maidens |  |  | the elf hill |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location |
| 2 | **dance** | past | invitations *= invitation* |  |  | shawls |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shawl=Location |
| 3 | **weave** | participle |  | shawls *not said here* |  | moonshine and mist |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from moonshine=Trajectory |
| 4 | **look** | present | mist |  |  |  |  | to mist; pretty *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to that=Theme |
| 5 | **like** | present |  | such things |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=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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