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title: Ib and Christina looked at the wishing nuts with wide open eyes. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ib and Christina looked at the wishing nuts with wide open eyes. Who acts: Ib. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 62

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Ib and Christina looked at the wishing nuts with wide open eyes.

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**Who acts:** Ib · **What happens:** look

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib), 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:pg27200:51:62
# text = Ib and Christina looked at the wishing nuts with wide open eyes.
1	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wishing	wishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Ib and Christina |  |  |  |  | with wide open eyes; at the wishing nuts | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at nut=Theme |

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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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