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title: Look what delicate fingers he has got; Madonna intended him for a gl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Look what delicate fingers he has got; Madonna intended him for a glovemaker." Who acts: you, Giuseppe, Madonna. 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 98

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Look what delicate fingers he has got; Madonna intended him for a glovemaker."

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**Who acts:** you, Giuseppe, Madonna · **What happens:** look, get, intend · **To what, where:** delicate fingers, Giuseppe

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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 (you, Giuseppe, Madonna), 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:pg27200:89:98
# text = Look what delicate fingers he has got; Madonna intended him for a glovemaker."
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	1	obl	_	_
3	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Madonna	Madonna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glovemaker	glovemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **get** | present · perfect | Giuseppe | delicate fingers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer finger=Stimulus |
| 3 | **intend** | past | Madonna | Giuseppe |  |  |  | for a glovemaker | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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