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title: But one day Ib succeeded so well in his carving that he made two pie… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But one day Ib succeeded so well in his carving that he made two pieces of wood look really like two little wooden shoes, and he determined to give them as a present to Little Christina. Who acts: one day, Ib, two pieces. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib a
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 9

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But one day Ib succeeded so well in his carving that he made two pieces of wood look really like two little wooden shoes, and he determined to give them as a present to Little Christina.

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**Who acts:** one day, Ib, two pieces · **What happens:** succeed, make, look, determine, give · **To what, where:** shoes

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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 (one day, Ib, two pieces), 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:pg27200:51:9
# text = But one day Ib succeeded so well in his carving that he made two pieces of wood look really like two little wooden shoes, and he determined to give them as a present to Little Christina.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Ib	Ib	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	carving	carving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
19	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	iobj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Christina	Christina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past | one day |  |  |  |  | in Ib's carving; well *property* | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in carving=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | past | Ib |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | present | two pieces of wood |  |  |  |  | like two little wooden shoes | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **determine** | past | Ib |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | Ib *not said here* |  | shoes *= shoe* |  |  | as a present to Little Christina | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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