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title: She raised herself a little, and glanced at the door of the room whe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She raised herself a little, and glanced at the door of the room where all her flowers and playthings lay; it was partly open, and as she listened, it seemed as if some one in the room was playing the piano, but softly and more prettily than she had ever before heard it. " Who acts: Ida, flowers, ro
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 80

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She raised herself a little, and glanced at the door of the room where all her flowers and playthings lay; it was partly open, and as she listened, it seemed as if some one in the room was playing the piano, but softly and more prettily than she had ever before heard it. "

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**Who acts:** Ida, flowers, room, it, one · **What happens:** raise, glance, lay, be, listen, seem · **To what, where:** Ida, piano

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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 (Ida, flowers, room, it), 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:pg27200:73:80
# text = She raised herself a little, and glanced at the door of the room where all her flowers and playthings lay; it was partly open, and as she listened, it seemed as if some one in the room was playing the piano, but softly and more prettily than she had ever before heard it. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	playthings	plaything	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	partly	partly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nsubj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	xcomp	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	piano	piano	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	51	advmod	_	_
51	prettily	prettily	ADV	RB	_	48	conj	_	_
52	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	56	advmod	_	_
56	before	before	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
60	"	"	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 | **raise** | past | Ida | Ida |  |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked*; softly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme |
| 2 | **glance** | past | Ida *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the door of the room | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at door=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | present | Ida's flowers and playthings |  |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | room |  |  |  |  | open, partly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **listen** | past | Ida |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **play** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · progressive | some one in the room | the piano |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piano=Theme |
| 8 | **hear** | past | Ida | piano |  |  |  | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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