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title: The children then danced about with their pretty toys, and no one no… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The children then danced about with their pretty toys, and no one noticed the tree, except the children's maid who came and peeped among the branches to see if an apple or a fig had been forgotten. Who acts: children, one, maid. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 82

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The children then danced about with their pretty toys, and no one noticed the tree, except the children's maid who came and peeped among the branches to see if an apple or a fig had been forgotten.

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**Who acts:** children, one, maid · **What happens:** dance, notice, come, peep, see, forget · **To what, where:** tree, apple

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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: who acts (children, one, maid), 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:pg27200:33:82
# text = The children then danced about with their pretty toys, and no one noticed the tree, except the children's maid who came and peeped among the branches to see if an apple or a fig had been forgotten.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	except	except	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	peeped	peep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	fig	fig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	40	aux:pass	_	_
40	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | the children |  |  |  | then | with children's pretty toys; about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **notice** | past | no one | the tree |  |  |  | except the children's maid | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | past | the children's maid |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **peep** | past | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | among the branches | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent among branch=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **forget** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | a apple or a fig |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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