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title: Mr. de Boots is water-tight, of strong leather, and yet very delicat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. de Boots is water-tight, of strong leather, and yet very delicate; he can creak, and clank with his spurs, and has an Italian physiognomy-'" Who acts: Mr de Boots, MR.. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Nursery, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Nursery, sentence 62

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Mr. de Boots is water-tight, of strong leather, and yet very delicate; he can creak, and clank with his spurs, and has an Italian physiognomy-'"

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**Who acts:** Mr de Boots, MR. · **What happens:** be, creak, have, spur · **To what, where:** clank, Italian physiognomy '

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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 (Mr de Boots, MR.), 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:pg27200:127:62
# text = Mr. de Boots is water-tight, of strong leather, and yet very delicate; he can creak, and clank with his spurs, and has an Italian physiognomy-'"
1	Mr	Mr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	creak	creak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	clank	clank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	physiognomy	physiognomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	'	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mr de Boots |  |  |  |  | of strong leather; tight *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Mr de Boots *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **creak** | can | MR. | clank |  |  |  | with MR.'s spurs | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clank=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | MR. *not said here* | a Italian physiognomy ' |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent '=Patient |
| 5 | **spur** |  | MR. |  |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication 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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