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title: But all day long his thoughts were in the picture gallery; and so he… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But all day long his thoughts were in the picture gallery; and so he pricked his fingers and was awkward. Who acts: thoughts, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 119

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But all day long his thoughts were in the picture gallery; and so he pricked his fingers and was awkward.

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**Who acts:** thoughts, boy · **What happens:** be, prick, think · **To what, where:** picture gallery, fingers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, boy), 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:pg27200:89:119
# text = But all day long his thoughts were in the picture gallery; and so he pricked his fingers and was awkward.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pricked	prick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	awkward	awkward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | boy's thoughts |  |  | the picture gallery |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prick** | past | boy | boy's fingers |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | awkward *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** |  | boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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