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title: Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper part is of morocco, and he has spurs into the bargain. Who acts: Boots, one, upper part. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 51

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Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper part is of morocco, and he has spurs into the bargain.

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**Who acts:** Boots, one, upper part · **What happens:** be, see, have · **To what, where:** person, face, spurs, bargain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boots, one, upper part), 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:pg27200:127:51
# text = Mr. de Boots is a person in whom one may see one's face; his upper part is of morocco, and he has spurs into the bargain.
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
2	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	Boots	Boots	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	morocco	morocco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Boots  Mr. | a person and morocco |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | may | one | one's face |  |  |  | in a person and morocco | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Boots's upper part |  |  |  |  | of morocco | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | Boots | spurs |  | the bargain |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=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:** «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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