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title: And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the collar came to be just this very piece of white paper we here see, and on which the story is printed; and that was because it boasted so terribly afterwards of what had never happened to it. Who acts: conscience, collar, we. A sent
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 62

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And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the collar came to be just this very piece of white paper we here see, and on which the story is printed; and that was because it boasted so terribly afterwards of what had never happened to it.

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**Who acts:** conscience, collar, we · **What happens:** become, turn, come, be, see, print · **To what, where:** rags, white paper, piece, story, conscience

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conscience, collar, we), 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:pg1597:22:62
# text = And it became so, all the rags were turned into white paper; but the collar came to be just this very piece of white paper we here see, and on which the story is printed; and that was because it boasted so terribly afterwards of what had never happened to it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	advcl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	obl:unmarked	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
48	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	53	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
52	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
53	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	parataxis	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | conscience |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **turn** | past · passive |  | all rags |  | white paper |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into paper=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | the collar |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the collar *not said here* | this piece |  |  |  | of white paper | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present | we | white paper *not said here* |  | here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paper=Stimulus |
| 6 | **print** | present · passive |  | the story |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |
| 7 | **is** | past | conscience |  |  |  |  | that *obl:unmarked*; boast, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **happen** | past · perfect |  |  | conscience |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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