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title: He wore long, white garments; he had wings which reached from his sh… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He wore long, white garments; he had wings which reached from his shoulders to the earth; his countenance was severe and grave; and in his hand he held a sword, broad and glittering. Who acts: peace, wings, countenance. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with it
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 57

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He wore long, white garments; he had wings which reached from his shoulders to the earth; his countenance was severe and grave; and in his hand he held a sword, broad and glittering.

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**Who acts:** peace, wings, countenance · **What happens:** wear, have, reach, be, hold, glitter · **To what, where:** long white garments, wings, shoulders, sword, hand

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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 (peace, wings, countenance), 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:pg1597:27:57
# text = He wore long, white garments; he had wings which reached from his shoulders to the earth; his countenance was severe and grave; and in his hand he held a sword, broad and glittering.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | peace | long white garments |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent garment=Source |
| 2 | **have** | past | peace | wings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **reach** | past | wings |  |  | peace's shoulders |  | to the earth | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | peace's countenance |  |  |  |  | severe *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | peace's countenance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **hold** | past | peace | a sword |  | peace's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Location |
| 7 | **glitter** | gerund | peace *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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