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title: After this fashion was Anthony dressed on holidays and festivals, ex… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: After this fashion was Anthony dressed on holidays and festivals, excepting that, instead of a high-crowned hat, he wore a kind of bonnet, and under it a knitted cap, a regular nightcap, to which he was so accustomed that it was always on his head; he had two, nightcaps I mean, not heads. Who acts: 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 29

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After this fashion was Anthony dressed on holidays and festivals, excepting that, instead of a high-crowned hat, he wore a kind of bonnet, and under it a knitted cap, a regular nightcap, to which he was so accustomed that it was always on his head; he had two, nightcaps I mean, not heads.

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**Who acts:** Anthony, kind, I · **What happens:** dress, except, crown, wear, knit, accustom · **To what, where:** Anthony, holidays, that, kind, bonnet, head

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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 (Anthony, kind, I), 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:pg27200:128:29
# text = After this fashion was Anthony dressed on holidays and festivals, excepting that, instead of a high-crowned hat, he wore a kind of bonnet, and under it a knitted cap, a regular nightcap, to which he was so accustomed that it was always on his head; he had two, nightcaps I mean, not heads.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	holidays	holiday	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	festivals	festival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	21	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	bonnet	bonnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	under	under	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	knitted	knit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	obl	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux:pass	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
50	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	53	advmod	_	_
51	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
57	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	nightcaps	nightcap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
60	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	59	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	64	advmod	_	_
64	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	61	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | Anthony |  | holidays and festivals | after this fashion |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **except** | gerund |  | that |  |  |  | instead a crowned hat | tree rules |
| 3 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wear** | past | Anthony | a kind of bonnet |  | bonnet |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent kind=Source |
| 5 | **knit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | Anthony |  |  |  | to a knitted cap | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | kind |  |  | Anthony's head |  | always *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | Anthony | two |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **mean** | present | I | heads |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |

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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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