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title: He wore wooden shoes, and when his father worked in a ship-yard, the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He wore wooden shoes, and when his father worked in a ship-yard, the boy, wrapped up in an old worn-out shawl, carried his dinner to him every day. Who acts: foliage, father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 67

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He wore wooden shoes, and when his father worked in a ship-yard, the boy, wrapped up in an old worn-out shawl, carried his dinner to him every day.

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**Who acts:** foliage, father · **What happens:** wear, work, wrap up, carry · **To what, where:** wooden shoes, old out shawl, dinner, foliage

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foliage, father), 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:pg27200:129:67
# text = He wore wooden shoes, and when his father worked in a ship-yard, the boy, wrapped up in an old worn-out shawl, carried his dinner to him every day.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
25	worn	worn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	shawl	shawl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | foliage | wooden shoes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past | foliage's father |  |  |  |  | in a ship yard and the boy | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in yard=Theme |
| 3 | **wrap up** | participle | foliage's father *not said here* |  |  | a old out shawl |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in shawl=Destination |
| 4 | **carry** | past | foliage *not said here* | foliage's dinner | foliage |  | day |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme to he=Destination |

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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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