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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4, sentence 108

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A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society.

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**Who acts:** stout stately dame, DAME · **What happens:** receive, express, call, appear · **To what, where:** schoolboys, much dissatisfaction, lark, such high society · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stout stately dame, DAME), 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:pg1597:8:108
# text = A stout stately dame received them with a smile; but she expressed much dissatisfaction that a common field-bird, as she called the lark, should appear in such high society.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dissatisfaction	dissatisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | a stout stately dame | schoolboys *= schoolboy* |  |  |  | with a smile | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **express** | past | DAME | much dissatisfaction |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dissatisfaction=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past | DAME | the lark |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lark=Recipient |
| 4 | **appear** | should | DAME *not said here* |  |  | such high society |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in society=Location |

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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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