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title: And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to the… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to the castle, and Karen was there also, and the little princess stood in her fine white dress, in a window, and let herself be stared at; she had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid red morocco shoes. Who acts: little daughte
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 13

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And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to the castle, and Karen was there also, and the little princess stood in her fine white dress, in a window, and let herself be stared at; she had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid red morocco shoes.

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**Who acts:** little daughter, people, Karen, little princess · **What happens:** be, stream, stand, let, stare, have · **To what, where:** princess, fine white dress, Karen, train

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little daughter, people, Karen, little princess), 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:pg1597:27:13
# text = And this little daughter was a princess, and people streamed to the castle, and Karen was there also, and the little princess stood in her fine white dress, in a window, and let herself be stared at; she had neither a train nor a golden crown, but splendid red morocco shoes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	streamed	stream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	parataxis	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
39	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obj	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	stared	stare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	xcomp	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
46	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	48	cc:preconj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	52	cc	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
56	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
57	morocco	morocco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this little daughter | a princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stream** | past | people | a princess *not said here* |  |  |  | to the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the little princess |  |  | Karen's fine white dress |  | in a window | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dress=Location |
| 5 | **let** | infinitive | the little princess *not said here* | Karen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stare** | infinitive · passive | Karen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme» |
| 7 | **have** | past | Karen | a train nor a golden crown |  |  |  | splendid red morocco shoes *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Patient |

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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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