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title: He did not observe Vertigo, who stood in the air behind him, trying… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He did not observe Vertigo, who stood in the air behind him, trying to lay hold of him with his outstretched polypous arms. Who acts: Rudy, Vertigo. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 37

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He did not observe Vertigo, who stood in the air behind him, trying to lay hold of him with his outstretched polypous arms.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, Vertigo · **What happens:** not observe, stand, try, lay, hold · **To what, where:** Vertigo, air, hold, Rudy

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Vertigo), 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:pg27200:58:37
# text = He did not observe Vertigo, who stood in the air behind him, trying to lay hold of him with his outstretched polypous arms.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Vertigo	Vertigo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	outstretched	outstretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	polypous	polypous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **observe** | past · do-support | Rudy | Vertigo |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vertigo=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Vertigo |  |  | the air |  | behind Rudy | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 3 | **try** | gerund | Vertigo *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **lay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Vertigo *not said here* | hold of Rudy |  |  |  | with Rudy's outstretched polypous arms | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | Rudy |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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