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title: He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, poor miserable cr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to wriggle and lurk about. Who acts: worm. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elfin Hill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 5

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He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to wriggle and lurk about.

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**Who acts:** worm · **What happens:** hear, not see, understand, wriggle, lurk · **To what, where:** great deal, poor miserable creature · **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 (worm), 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:pg27200:31:5
# text = He has heard a great deal; although he cannot see, poor miserable creature, yet he understands very well how to wriggle and lurk about.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	understands	understand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	lurk	lurk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | worm | a great deal |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **see** | can | worm | poor miserable creature |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |
| 3 | **understand** | present | worm |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wriggle** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lurk** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | 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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