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title: In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought. Who acts: girl, shoes, Shoemaker. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 2

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In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought.

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**Who acts:** girl, shoes, Shoemaker · **What happens:** live, sit, sew, be · **To what, where:** old Dame Shoemaker, middle, kind thought

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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 (girl, shoes, Shoemaker), 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:pg1597:27:2
# text = In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sewed	sew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
19	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	fixed	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | old Dame Shoemaker |  | the middle of the village |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme shoemaker=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sew** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  |  | clumsy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | Shoemaker | a kind thought |  |  |  |  | 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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