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title: The woollen shirt was concealed by a broad, linen collar; the close… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The woollen shirt was concealed by a broad, linen collar; the close jacket was buttoned up to the chin, and the cloak hung loosely over it; the trousers were tucked into the broad, tipped shoes, for the clerks wore no stockings. Who acts: cloak, clerks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 27

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The woollen shirt was concealed by a broad, linen collar; the close jacket was buttoned up to the chin, and the cloak hung loosely over it; the trousers were tucked into the broad, tipped shoes, for the clerks wore no stockings.

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**Who acts:** cloak, clerks · **What happens:** conceal, button up, hang, tuck, tip, wear · **To what, where:** woollen shirt, close jacket, jacket, trousers, broad tipped shoes, stockings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloak, clerks), 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:pg27200:128:27
# text = The woollen shirt was concealed by a broad, linen collar; the close jacket was buttoned up to the chin, and the cloak hung loosely over it; the trousers were tucked into the broad, tipped shoes, for the clerks wore no stockings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	woollen	woollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	linen	linen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	jacket	jacket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	buttoned	button	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	chin	chin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	loosely	loosely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
35	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	tipped	tip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	amod	_	_
40	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	clerks	clerk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
45	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | the woollen shirt |  |  |  | by a broad linen collar | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient by collar=Location |
| 2 | **button up** | past · passive |  | the close jacket |  |  |  | to the chin | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to chin=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **hang** | past | the cloak |  |  | jacket |  | loosely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Location |
| 4 | **tuck** | past · passive |  | the trousers |  | the broad tipped shoes |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into shoe=Destination |
| 5 | **tip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wear** | past | the clerks | no stockings |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stocking=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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