--- title: The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new cloth… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new clothes--I am well furnished; the master of the mint struck new coin for me, and the women said I was so handsome! Who acts: professors, tailors, master, women. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/153/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/) / 153 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 153 The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new clothes--I am well furnished; the master of the mint struck new coin for me, and the women said I was so handsome! **Who acts:** professors, tailors, master, women, I · **What happens:** make, give, furnish, strike, say, be · **To what, where:** professor, new clothes, me, I, new coin · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (professors, tailors, master, women), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:23:153 # text = The professors made a professor of me; the tailors gave me new clothes--I am well furnished; the master of the mint struck new coin for me, and the women said I was so handsome! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 professors professor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 professor professor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 tailors tailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 iobj _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 19 furnished furnish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 coin coin NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 so so ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 handsome handsome ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the professors | a professor of me | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent professor=Product | | 2 | **give** | past | the tailors | new clothes | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clothes=Theme | | 3 | **furnish** | present · passive | | I | | | | well *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 4 | **strike** | past | the master of the mint | new coin | | | | for me | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coin=Patient | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the women | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past | I | | | | | handsome *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/152/) - next →: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/154/) - ↑ back to [The Shadow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/23/)