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title: A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bordingborg, and that was a large and very lively town. Who acts: knight, Tuk, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 31

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A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bordingborg, and that was a large and very lively town.

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**Who acts:** knight, Tuk, that · **What happens:** gleam, dress, hold, ride, be · **To what, where:** knight, many, wood, large town

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, Tuk, that), 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:pg1597:25:31
# text = A knight with a gleaming plume, and most magnificently dressed, held him before him on the horse, and thus they rode through the wood to the old town of Bordingborg, and that was a large and very lively town.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Bordingborg	Bordingborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
39	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	very	very	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	lively	lively	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
43	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | a knight with a gleaming plume *not said here* |  |  |  | magnificently *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hold** | past | a knight with a gleaming plume | many |  |  | before many | on the horse | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme before he=Location |
| 4 | **ride** | past | Tuk |  |  | the wood |  | to the old town of Bordingborg; thus *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that | a large town |  |  |  |  | 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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