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title: She stretched out her arms to him, but she did not venture to call h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She stretched out her arms to him, but she did not venture to call him or to pray; and had she called him, it would have been useless, for it was not Rudy, only his hunting coat and hat hanging on an alpenstock, as the hunters sometimes arrange them to deceive the chamois. " Who acts: Babette, agony
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, XIV. Night Visions, sentence 18

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She stretched out her arms to him, but she did not venture to call him or to pray; and had she called him, it would have been useless, for it was not Rudy, only his hunting coat and hat hanging on an alpenstock, as the hunters sometimes arrange them to deceive the chamois. "

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**Who acts:** Babette, agony, hunting coat, hunters · **What happens:** stretch out, not venture, call, pray, have, be · **To what, where:** arms, Rudy, alpenstock, chamois · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, XIV. Night Visions. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Babette, agony, hunting coat, hunters), 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:pg27200:65:18
# text = She stretched out her arms to him, but she did not venture to call him or to pray; and had she called him, it would have been useless, for it was not Rudy, only his hunting coat and hat hanging on an alpenstock, as the hunters sometimes arrange them to deceive the chamois. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
31	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	only	only	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
46	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	alpenstock	alpenstock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	hunters	hunter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
53	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	54	advmod	_	_
54	arrange	arrange	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
55	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	deceive	deceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	advcl	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch out** | past | Babette | Babette's arms | Rudy |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent arm=Patient to he=Result |
| 2 | **not** **venture** | past · do-support | Babette |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **call** | to-infinitive | Babette *not said here* |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **pray** | to-infinitive | Babette *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **call** | past | Babette |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | would · perfect | agony |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **is** | past | agony |  |  |  |  | for Rudy | tree rules |
| 9 | **hang** | gerund | Rudy's hunting coat and hat *not said here* |  |  | a alpenstock |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on alpenstock=Location |
| 10 | **arrange** | present | the hunters | arms *= arm* |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 11 | **deceive** | to-infinitive | the hunters *not said here* | the chamois |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamois=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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