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title: One arranged her flower-bed into the form of a whale; another though… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One arranged her flower-bed into the form of a whale; another thought it better to make hers like the figure of a little mermaid; but that of the youngest was round like the sun, and contained flowers as red as his rays at sunset. Who acts: One, another, sun, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 21

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One arranged her flower-bed into the form of a whale; another thought it better to make hers like the figure of a little mermaid; but that of the youngest was round like the sun, and contained flowers as red as his rays at sunset.

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**Who acts:** One, another, sun, that, mermaid · **What happens:** arrange, think, make, like, be, contain · **To what, where:** flower bed, form, bed, sun, figure, flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, another, sun, that), 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:pg27200:75:21
# text = One arranged her flower-bed into the form of a whale; another thought it better to make hers like the figure of a little mermaid; but that of the youngest was round like the sun, and contained flowers as red as his rays at sunset.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
36	like	like	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrange** | past | One | sun's flower bed |  | the form of a whale |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent bed=Material into form=Product |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | another | bed |  |  |  | good *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **like** | infinitive | sun *not said here* | the figure of a little mermaid |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot figure=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | like the sun; round *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **contain** | past | One *not said here* | flowers |  |  |  | as red; as mermaid's rays at sunset | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flower=Theme |
| 7 | **form** |  |  | a whale |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **figure** |  |  | a little mermaid |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **ray** |  | mermaid |  |  |  |  | at sunset | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent at=obl |

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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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