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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 40

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Oh, did not the youngest sister listen eagerly to all these descriptions? and afterwards, when she stood at the open window looking up through the dark blue water, she thought of the great city, with all its bustle and noise, and even fancied she could hear the sound of the church bells, down in the depths of the sea.

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**Who acts:** youngest sister, turn, city · **What happens:** not listen, stand, look up, think, fancy, hear · **To what, where:** open window, sound, depths

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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 (youngest sister, turn, city), 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:pg27200:75:40
# text = Oh, did not the youngest sister listen eagerly to all these descriptions? and afterwards, when she stood at the open window looking up through the dark blue water, she thought of the great city, with all its bustle and noise, and even fancied she could hear the sound of the church bells, down in the depths of the sea.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	descriptions	description	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	43	det:predet	_	_
42	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	bustle	bustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	ccomp	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
50	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	ccomp	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
60	down	down	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
61	in	in	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	depths	depth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	_
64	of	of	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | past · do-support | the youngest sister |  |  |  |  | to all descriptions; eagerly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to description=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | turn |  |  | the open window |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=Location |
| 3 | **look up** | gerund | turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through the dark blue water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through water=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | turn |  |  |  |  | of the great city | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **fancy** | past | turn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **hear** | could | turn | the sound of the church bells |  | the depths of the sea |  | down *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 7 | **bustle** |  | city |  |  |  |  |  | nom bustle «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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