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title: The young wife wiped the dirt off the soldier, first with a green le… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The young wife wiped the dirt off the soldier, first with a green leaf, and then with her fine handkerchief--it had such a delightful smell, that it was to the pewter soldier just as if he had awaked from a trance. Who acts: young wife, dirt, relief. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. A
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 114

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The young wife wiped the dirt off the soldier, first with a green leaf, and then with her fine handkerchief--it had such a delightful smell, that it was to the pewter soldier just as if he had awaked from a trance.

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**Who acts:** young wife, dirt, relief · **What happens:** wipe, have, be, awak · **To what, where:** dirt, soldier, delightful smell, trance

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young wife, dirt, relief), 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:pg1597:19:114
# text = The young wife wiped the dirt off the soldier, first with a green leaf, and then with her fine handkerchief--it had such a delightful smell, that it was to the pewter soldier just as if he had awaked from a trance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	29	det:predet	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	pewter	pewter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	awaked	awak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe** | past | the young wife | the dirt |  | the soldier |  | with a green leaf; with wife's fine handkerchief | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent dirt=Theme off soldier=Trajectory |
| 2 | **have** | past | dirt | such delightful smell |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | dirt |  |  |  |  | to the pewter soldier | tree rules |
| 4 | **awak** | past · perfect | relief |  |  | a trance |  |  | tree rules |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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