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title: The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rappe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rapped, and I, the Moon, was present at the performance from beginning to end." Who acts: chandelier, crowd, knuckles, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourth Evening, sentence 11

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The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rapped, and I, the Moon, was present at the performance from beginning to end."

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**Who acts:** chandelier, crowd, knuckles, I · **What happens:** give, get, rap, be, begin · **To what, where:** little leaps, knuckles, performance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chandelier, crowd, knuckles, I), 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:pg27200:95:11
# text = The chandelier gave little leaps, the crowd got their knuckles rapped, and I, the Moon, was present at the performance from beginning to end."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chandelier	chandelier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	leaps	leap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	rapped	rap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the chandelier | little leaps |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | the crowd | leaps's knuckles |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rap** | participle | leaps's knuckles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | I |  |  | the performance |  | present *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **begin** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | to end |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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