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title: Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the younger girls. Who acts: old wooden shoe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels, sentence 143

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Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the younger girls.

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**Who acts:** old wooden shoe · **What happens:** look, be, sail, say · **To what, where:** old wooden shoe, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Beetle Who Went on His Travels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old wooden shoe), 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:pg27200:8:143
# text = Look, yonder is an old wooden shoe sailing along," said one of the younger girls.
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	along	along	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a old wooden shoe |  |  |  | yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sail** | gerund | a old wooden shoe *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a old wooden shoe | one of the younger girls |  |  |  |  | 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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