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title: She had received a new blue dress, and a new pink hat, the splendid… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had received a new blue dress, and a new pink hat, the splendid attire had just been put on, and all were calling for a candle, for my rays, shining in through the windows of the room, were not bright enough for the occasion, and further illumination was required. Who acts: bride, all, new pink 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Sixteenth Evening, sentence 3

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She had received a new blue dress, and a new pink hat, the splendid attire had just been put on, and all were calling for a candle, for my rays, shining in through the windows of the room, were not bright enough for the occasion, and further illumination was required.

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**Who acts:** bride, all, new pink hat, my · **What happens:** receive, put on, call, shine, not be, require · **To what, where:** new blue dress, splendid attire, windows, further illumination · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (bride, all, new pink hat, my), 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:pg27200:107:3
# text = She had received a new blue dress, and a new pink hat, the splendid attire had just been put on, and all were calling for a candle, for my rays, shining in through the windows of the room, were not bright enough for the occasion, and further illumination was required.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	attire	attire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
37	in	in	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
47	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
48	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
49	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
54	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	illumination	illumination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
56	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · perfect | bride | a new blue dress |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **put on** | past · perfect · passive |  | the splendid attire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 3 | **call** | past · progressive | all |  |  |  |  | for a candle; for my rays | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for candle=Recipient |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | all *not said here* |  |  | the windows of the room |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | a new pink hat |  |  |  |  | for the occasion; bright, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **require** | past · passive |  | further illumination |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Precondition |
| 7 | **ray** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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