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title: The Best That the Galoshes Gave — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Best That the Galoshes Gave A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 49

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The Best That the Galoshes Gave

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:9:49
# text = The Best That the Galoshes Gave
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
3	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
6	Gave	Gave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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