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title: Now something rustled among the bushes, and a little boy stood befor… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now something rustled among the bushes, and a little boy stood before the king's son, in wooden shoes and such a short jacket that the sleeves did not reach to his wrists. Who acts: something, little boy, sleeves. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell, wi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 44

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Now something rustled among the bushes, and a little boy stood before the king's son, in wooden shoes and such a short jacket that the sleeves did not reach to his wrists.

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**Who acts:** something, little boy, sleeves · **What happens:** rustle, stand, not reach · **To what, where:** bushes, wooden shoes, short jacket

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (something, little boy, sleeves), 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:pg27200:9:44
# text = Now something rustled among the bushes, and a little boy stood before the king's son, in wooden shoes and such a short jacket that the sleeves did not reach to his wrists.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	26	det:predet	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rustle** | participle | something |  |  | the bushes | now |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a little boy |  |  | wooden shoes and such short jacket | before the king's son |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before son=Location |
| 3 | **not** **reach** | past · do-support | the sleeves | such short jacket |  |  |  | to boy's wrists | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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