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title: It seemed to him as if all the neatest and most curiously carved toy… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to him as if all the neatest and most curiously carved toy houses which his grandfather once kept in the large cupboard at home, had been brought out and placed in this spot, and that they had increased in size since then, as the old chestnut trees had done. Who acts: It, streets. A senten
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 114

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It seemed to him as if all the neatest and most curiously carved toy houses which his grandfather once kept in the large cupboard at home, had been brought out and placed in this spot, and that they had increased in size since then, as the old chestnut trees had done.

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**Who acts:** It, streets · **What happens:** seem, carve, keep, bring out, place, increase · **To what, where:** Rudy, grandfather, large cupboard, neatest carved toy houses, spot, size

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, streets), 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:pg27200:55:114
# text = It seemed to him as if all the neatest and most curiously carved toy houses which his grandfather once kept in the large cupboard at home, had been brought out and placed in this spot, and that they had increased in size since then, as the old chestnut trees had done.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
9	neatest	neat	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	20	advmod	_	_
20	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	xcomp	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
45	since	since	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
48	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
50	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	chestnut	chestnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | curiously *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** | participle · passive |  | Rudy's grandfather |  | the large cupboard at home |  | once *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme which=Attribute |
| 4 | **bring out** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | all neatest carved toy houses |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **place** | participle |  |  |  | this spot |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in spot=Destination |
| 6 | **increase** | past · perfect | streets *= street* |  |  | size |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | past · perfect · passive |  | the old chestnut trees |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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