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title: Six glow-worms gave as much light as they could; but in other respec… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Six glow-worms gave as much light as they could; but in other respects it was all very quiet; for the old snails could not bear festivities or a crowd. Who acts: Six glow worms, worm, old snails. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 49

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Six glow-worms gave as much light as they could; but in other respects it was all very quiet; for the old snails could not bear festivities or a crowd.

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**Who acts:** Six glow worms, worm, old snails · **What happens:** give, respect, be, not bear · **To what, where:** much light, other, festivities

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Six glow worms, worm, old snails), 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:pg27200:48:49
# text = Six glow-worms gave as much light as they could; but in other respects it was all very quiet; for the old snails could not bear festivities or a crowd.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
16	respects	respect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	all	all	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
30	festivities	festivity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Six glow worms | much light |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme |
| 2 | **respect** | present |  |  |  | other |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | worm |  |  |  |  | all, quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **bear** | could | the old snails | festivities or a crowd |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent festivity=Patient |

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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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