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title: But the boy, who was named Rudy, looked with still greater pleasure… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the boy, who was named Rudy, looked with still greater pleasure and longing at some old fire-arms which hung upon the rafters, under the ceiling of the room. Who acts: boy, old fire arms. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy, with its dependenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 20

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But the boy, who was named Rudy, looked with still greater pleasure and longing at some old fire-arms which hung upon the rafters, under the ceiling of the room.

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**Who acts:** boy, old fire arms · **What happens:** name, look, long, hang · **To what, where:** boy, old fire arms, rafters

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, old fire arms), 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:pg27200:52:20
# text = But the boy, who was named Rudy, looked with still greater pleasure and longing at some old fire-arms which hung upon the rafters, under the ceiling of the room.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	longing	long	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	rafters	rafter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | past · passive |  | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | with greater pleasure | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **long** | gerund | the boy *not said here* |  |  | some old fire arms |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **hang** | past | some old fire arms |  |  | the rafters |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rafter=Location |

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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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