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title: Her feet were bare, her short frock and her white sleeves were torn. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Her feet were bare, her short frock and her white sleeves were torn. Who acts: feet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 11

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Her feet were bare, her short frock and her white sleeves were torn.

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**Who acts:** feet · **What happens:** be, tear · **To what, where:** white sleeves

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet), 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:pg27200:110:11
# text = Her feet were bare, her short frock and her white sleeves were torn.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	frock	frock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | beam's feet |  |  |  |  | beam's short frock *obl*; bare *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tear** | past · passive |  | beam's white sleeves |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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