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title: "There is something going on within there," said the other lizard; "… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "There is something going on within there," said the other lizard; "they propped up the top of the hill with four red posts, till cock-crow this morning, so that it is thoroughly aired, and the elfin girls have learnt new dances; there is something." Who acts: something, other lizard, lizards, elfin
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 3

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"There is something going on within there," said the other lizard; "they propped up the top of the hill with four red posts, till cock-crow this morning, so that it is thoroughly aired, and the elfin girls have learnt new dances; there is something."

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**Who acts:** something, other lizard, lizards, elfin girls · **What happens:** be, go on, say, prop up, air, learn · **To what, where:** top, hill, new dances · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (something, other lizard, lizards, elfin girls), 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:pg27200:31:3
# text = "There is something going on within there," said the other lizard; "they propped up the top of the hill with four red posts, till cock-crow this morning, so that it is thoroughly aired, and the elfin girls have learnt new dances; there is something."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
4	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lizard	lizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	propped	prop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
27	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	posts	post	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	till	till	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	42	mark	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
41	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	aired	air	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	elfin	elfin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	learnt	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	42	conj	_	_
50	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
53	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	54	expl	_	_
54	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
55	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	54	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	54	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go on** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other lizard |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **prop up** *in a quote* | past | lizards *= lizard* | the top of the hill |  |  | till cock crow; morning | with four red posts | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
| 5 | **air** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | hill |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **learn** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the elfin girls | new dances |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Topic |
| 7 | **be** *in a quote* | present | something |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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