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title: As none of the flowers seemed to notice Sophy, she let herself down… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As none of the flowers seemed to notice Sophy, she let herself down from the drawer to the floor, so as to make a very great noise. Who acts: flowers, Sophy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 111

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As none of the flowers seemed to notice Sophy, she let herself down from the drawer to the floor, so as to make a very great noise.

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**Who acts:** flowers, Sophy · **What happens:** seem, notice, let down, make · **To what, where:** Sophy, drawer, great noise

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flowers, Sophy), 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:pg27200:73:111
# text = As none of the flowers seemed to notice Sophy, she let herself down from the drawer to the floor, so as to make a very great noise.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	Sophy	sophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	drawer	drawer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the flowers |  |  |  |  | as none | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive | the flowers *not said here* | Sophy |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sophy=Stimulus |
| 3 | **let down** | past | Sophy | Sophy |  | the drawer to the floor |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | Sophy *not said here* | a great noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |

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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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