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title: They were certainly far handsomer than those Dame Shoemaker had made… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were certainly far handsomer than those Dame Shoemaker had made for little Karen. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 14

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They were certainly far handsomer than those Dame Shoemaker had made for little Karen.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** those

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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 (people), 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:pg1597:27:14
# text = They were certainly far handsomer than those Dame Shoemaker had made for little Karen.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	Shoemaker	Shoemaker	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | people |  |  |  |  | certainly, far, handsome *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | those |  |  |  | for little Karen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for karen=Beneficiary |

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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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