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title: So Anthony invented employment; he mended his clothes and patched hi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So Anthony invented employment; he mended his clothes and patched his boots, and when he at last went to bed,--his nightcap, which he had worn from habit, still remained on his head; he had only to pull it down a little farther over his forehead. Who acts: Anthony, last. A sentence of «Fairy Tales o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 44

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So Anthony invented employment; he mended his clothes and patched his boots, and when he at last went to bed,--his nightcap, which he had worn from habit, still remained on his head; he had only to pull it down a little farther over his forehead.

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**Who acts:** Anthony, last · **What happens:** invent, mend, patch, go, wear, remain · **To what, where:** employment, clothes, boots, nightcap, bed, habit

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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, last), 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:pg27200:128:44
# text = So Anthony invented employment; he mended his clothes and patched his boots, and when he at last went to bed,--his nightcap, which he had worn from habit, still remained on his head; he had only to pull it down a little farther over his forehead.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Anthony	Anthony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	mended	mend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	patched	patch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	only	only	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	down	down	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	obl	_	_
50	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	45	advmod	_	_
51	over	over	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	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past | Anthony | employment |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent employment=Result |
| 2 | **mend** | past | Anthony | Anthony's clothes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **patch** | past | Anthony *not said here* | Anthony's boots |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent boot=Destination |
| 4 | **go** | past | last | Anthony's nightcap |  | bed |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **wear** | past · perfect · passive |  | Anthony's nightcap |  | habit |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from habit=Source |
| 6 | **remain** | participle |  | habit *not said here* |  | Anthony's head | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 7 | **have** | past | Anthony |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **pull down** | to-infinitive | Anthony *not said here* | employment |  | Anthony's forehead |  | far *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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