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title: They all laughed at him then, but now it seemed to little Ida as if… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They all laughed at him then, but now it seemed to little Ida as if the tall, yellow flower was really like the young lady. Who acts: lilies, it, tall yellow flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 89

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They all laughed at him then, but now it seemed to little Ida as if the tall, yellow flower was really like the young lady.

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**Who acts:** lilies, it, tall yellow flower · **What happens:** laugh, seem, be · **To what, where:** little Ida

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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 (lilies, it, tall yellow flower), 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:pg27200:73:89
# text = They all laughed at him then, but now it seemed to little Ida as if the tall, yellow flower was really like the young lady.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
23	really	really	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | lilies *= lily* |  |  |  | then | at student | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  | little Ida |  | now |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the tall yellow flower |  |  |  |  | as the young lady | tree rules |

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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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