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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 68

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In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bosom of his waistcoat.

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**Who acts:** magazine · **What happens:** have, sew up, letter, bosom · **To what, where:** letter, right pocket, double louis d'or, bosom, credit, waistcoat

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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: who acts (magazine), 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:pg1597:9:68
# text = In his right pocket he had his letter of credit, in the left, his passport, and in a small leathern purse some double louis d'or, carefully sewn up in the bosom of his waistcoat.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	passport	passport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	leathern	leathern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	purse	purse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
26	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	d'or	d'or	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	waistcoat	waistcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | magazine | magazine's letter of credit and the left and magazine's passport |  | magazine's right pocket |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sew up** | participle |  | some double louis d'or *not said here* |  | the bosom of magazine's waistcoat |  | carefully *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in bosom=Destination |
| 3 | **letter** |  | magazine | credit |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
| 4 | **bosom** |  |  | magazine's waistcoat |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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