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title: She saw that in her father's palace the torches in the ballroom were… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw that in her father's palace the torches in the ballroom were extinguished, and all within asleep; but she did not venture to go in to them, for now she was dumb and going to leave them forever, she felt as if her heart would break. Who acts: polypi, torches, heart. A sentence of «Fairy Tales
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3, sentence 37

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She saw that in her father's palace the torches in the ballroom were extinguished, and all within asleep; but she did not venture to go in to them, for now she was dumb and going to leave them forever, she felt as if her heart would break.

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**Who acts:** polypi, torches, heart · **What happens:** see, be, not venture, go in, go, leave · **To what, where:** palace, torches

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (polypi, torches, heart), 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:pg27200:77:37
# text = She saw that in her father's palace the torches in the ballroom were extinguished, and all within asleep; but she did not venture to go in to them, for now she was dumb and going to leave them forever, she felt as if her heart would break.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	torches	torch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ballroom	ballroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
19	within	within	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
37	dumb	dumb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	conj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | polypi | polypi's father's palace |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | the torches in the ballroom | polypi's father's palace *not said here* |  |  |  | extinguished *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **venture** | past · do-support | polypi |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go in** | to-infinitive | polypi *not said here* |  | torches *= torch* |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | polypi |  |  |  | now | dumb *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | polypi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **leave** | to-infinitive | polypi *not said here* | torches *= torch* |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 8 | **feel** | past | polypi |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | polypi's heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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