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title: Dolls, exactly like real babies, were placed under the green leaves,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Dolls, exactly like real babies, were placed under the green leaves,--the tree had never seen such things before,--and at the very top was fastened a glittering star, made of tinsel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 64

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Dolls, exactly like real babies, were placed under the green leaves,--the tree had never seen such things before,--and at the very top was fastened a glittering star, made of tinsel.

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**What happens:** place, not see, fasten, glitter, make · **To what, where:** Dolls, green leaves, tree, glittering star, top

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:33:64
# text = Dolls, exactly like real babies, were placed under the green leaves,--the tree had never seen such things before,--and at the very top was fastened a glittering star, made of tinsel.
1	Dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	tinsel	tinsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | Dolls and real babies |  | the green leaves |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under leaf=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tree |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | a glittering star |  | the top |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: star=Patient |
| 4 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | a glittering star *not said here* |  |  |  | of tinsel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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