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title: Now came the fourth daughter, with a large harp to play upon; and wh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now came the fourth daughter, with a large harp to play upon; and when she struck the first chord, every one lifted up the left leg (for the goblins are left-legged), and at the second chord they found they must all do just what she wanted. Who acts: fourth daughter, daughter, one, legs. A sentence 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elfin Hill, sentence 79

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Now came the fourth daughter, with a large harp to play upon; and when she struck the first chord, every one lifted up the left leg (for the goblins are left-legged), and at the second chord they found they must all do just what she wanted.

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**Who acts:** fourth daughter, daughter, one, legs · **What happens:** come, play, strike, lift up, leave, find · **To what, where:** first chord, left leg, second chord · **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 (fourth daughter, daughter, one, legs), 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:pg27200:31:79
# text = Now came the fourth daughter, with a large harp to play upon; and when she struck the first chord, every one lifted up the left leg (for the goblins are left-legged), and at the second chord they found they must all do just what she wanted.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	harp	harp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	chord	chord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
25	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	legged	legged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	44	amod	_	_
44	chord	chord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	all	all	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
50	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	_
51	just	just	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	50	obj	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the fourth daughter |  |  |  | now | with a large harp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | to-infinitive | the fourth daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | past | daughter | the first chord |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chord=Patient |
| 4 | **lift up** | participle | every one *not said here* | the left leg |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leave** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | for the goblins | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: for goblin=Recipient |
| 6 | **find** | past | legs *= leg* |  |  | the second chord |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **do** | must | legs *= leg* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 8 | **want** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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