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title: Ida looked that way, and saw a slight carnival rod jumping down amon… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Ida looked that way, and saw a slight carnival rod jumping down among the flowers as if it belonged to them; it was, however, very smooth and neat, and a little wax doll with a broad brimmed hat on her head, like the one worn by the lawyer, sat upon it. Who acts: Ida, slight carnival rod, rod, littl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Ida's Flowers, sentence 95

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Ida looked that way, and saw a slight carnival rod jumping down among the flowers as if it belonged to them; it was, however, very smooth and neat, and a little wax doll with a broad brimmed hat on her head, like the one worn by the lawyer, sat upon it.

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**Who acts:** Ida, slight carnival rod, rod, little wax doll · **What happens:** look, see, jump down, belong, be, brim · **To what, where:** way, slight carnival rod, flowers, head, one, doll

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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, slight carnival rod, rod, little wax doll), 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:pg27200:73:95
# text = Ida looked that way, and saw a slight carnival rod jumping down among the flowers as if it belonged to them; it was, however, very smooth and neat, and a little wax doll with a broad brimmed hat on her head, like the one worn by the lawyer, sat upon it.
1	Ida	Ida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	carnival	carnival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	however	however	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	wax	wax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	broad	broad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	brimmed	brim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	amod	_	_
43	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	like	like	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
51	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	acl	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	lawyer	lawyer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
56	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
57	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Ida | that way |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | Ida *not said here* | a slight carnival rod |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rod=Stimulus |
| 3 | **jump down** | gerund | a slight carnival rod *not said here* |  |  | the flowers |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among flower=Trajectory |
| 4 | **belong** | past | rod |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | rod |  |  |  |  | however, smooth *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | rod *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **brim** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **hat** |  | a little wax doll with a broad |  |  | Ida's head |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **wear** | participle |  | the one *not said here* |  |  |  | by the lawyer | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **sit** | past |  |  |  | doll |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |

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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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