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title: The little ones twirled round like tops, and the large ones rolled a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little ones twirled round like tops, and the large ones rolled away as far as they could, especially the one great silver crown piece who had often to go out into the world, and now he had his wish as well as all the rest of the money. Who acts: one great crown piece, play. A sentence of «Fairy 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 35

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The little ones twirled round like tops, and the large ones rolled away as far as they could, especially the one great silver crown piece who had often to go out into the world, and now he had his wish as well as all the rest of the money.

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**Who acts:** one great crown piece, play · **What happens:** twirl, roll away, go out, have, wish · **To what, where:** little ones, large ones, world, wish

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one great crown piece, play), 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:pg27200:90:35
# text = The little ones twirled round like tops, and the large ones rolled away as far as they could, especially the one great silver crown piece who had often to go out into the world, and now he had his wish as well as all the rest of the money.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	twirled	twirl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
13	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
28	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
30	often	often	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	wish	wish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	49	cc	_	_
45	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	44	fixed	_	_
46	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
47	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	49	det:predet	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twirl** | participle |  | the little ones and the large ones *not said here* |  |  |  | like tops; round *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **roll away** | participle |  | the large ones *not said here* |  |  |  | away, far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | past | the one great crown piece |  |  | the world |  | often, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | past | play | play's wish |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient |
| 5 | **wish** |  | play |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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