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title: Then the grandfather nodded to a place above the looking-glass, wher… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 47

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Then the grandfather nodded to a place above the looking-glass, where hung an almanac, with a representation of the Round Tower upon it, and said "Tycho Brahe was another of those who used a sword, but not one to cut into the flesh and bone, but to make the way of the stars of heaven clear, and plain to be understood.

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**Who acts:** grandfather, one · **What happens:** nod, look, hang, say, use, cut · **To what, where:** looking glass, almanac, sword, way, Round Tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather, one), 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:pg27200:50:47
# text = Then the grandfather nodded to a place above the looking-glass, where hung an almanac, with a representation of the Round Tower upon it, and said "Tycho Brahe was another of those who used a sword, but not one to cut into the flesh and bone, but to make the way of the stars of heaven clear, and plain to be understood.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
15	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	almanac	almanac	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	representation	representation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Round	Round	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	Tycho	Tycho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
33	Brahe	Brahe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	conj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	35	conj	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	45	advmod	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nsubj	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	flesh	flesh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nmod	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	_
64	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
68	to	to	PART	TO	_	70	mark	_	_
69	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	70	aux:pass	_	_
70	understood	understand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	67	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nod** | past | the grandfather |  |  | the looking glass | then | to a place | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hang** | participle | the grandfather *not said here* | a almanac |  |  |  | with a representation of the Round Tower; upon Tower | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent almanac=Patient with representation=Instrument |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **use** *in a quote* | past |  | a sword |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 6 | **cut** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | one |  |  |  |  | into the flesh and bone | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into flesh=Patient |
| 7 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* | the way of the stars of heaven |  |  |  | clear *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product |
| 8 | **understand** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | the grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 9 | **represent** |  |  | the Round Tower |  |  |  |  | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=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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