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title: I have seen the cadet who had just been made an officer put on his h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I have seen the cadet who had just been made an officer put on his handsome uniform for the first time; I have seen the young bride in her wedding dress, and the princess girl-wife happy in her gorgeous robes; but never have I seen a felicity equal to that of a little girl of four years old, whom I 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, sentence 2

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I have seen the cadet who had just been made an officer put on his handsome uniform for the first time; I have seen the young bride in her wedding dress, and the princess girl-wife happy in her gorgeous robes; but never have I seen a felicity equal to that of a little girl of four years old, whom I watched this evening.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** see, make, put, watch · **To what, where:** cadet, officer, handsome uniform, young bride, wedding dress, felicity

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Sixteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:107:2
# text = I have seen the cadet who had just been made an officer put on his handsome uniform for the first time; I have seen the young bride in her wedding dress, and the princess girl-wife happy in her gorgeous robes; but never have I seen a felicity equal to that of a little girl of four years old, whom I watched this evening.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cadet	cadet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
43	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
46	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	felicity	felicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
60	of	of	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	62	nummod	_	_
62	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl:unmarked	_	_
63	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	67	obj	_	_
66	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
68	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	69	det	_	_
69	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the cadet |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cadet=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cadet |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: officer=Product |
| 3 | **put** | participle |  | a officer *not said here* |  | Moon's handsome uniform | time |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on uniform=Destination |
| 4 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the young bride |  | bride's wedding dress |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bride=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | a felicity |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer felicity=Stimulus |
| 6 | **watch** | past | I | a felicity |  |  | evening |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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