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title: So one of the court-ladies must run in; however, she drew on wooden… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So one of the court-ladies must run in; however, she drew on wooden slippers first. Who acts: one, piece. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 47

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So one of the court-ladies must run in; however, she drew on wooden slippers first.

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**Who acts:** one, piece · **What happens:** run, draw · **To what, where:** wooden slippers

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, piece), 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:pg1597:3:47
# text = So one of the court-ladies must run in; however, she drew on wooden slippers first.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	however	however	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | must | one of the court ladies |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | piece |  |  | wooden slippers |  | first, however *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on slipper=Destination |

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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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