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title: The sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread were put into the bas… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread were put into the basket by the furrier's daughter herself, for she packed it. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 29

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The sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread were put into the basket by the furrier's daughter herself, for she packed it.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** put, pack · **To what, where:** sweetest fresh butter, basket

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg27200:13:29
# text = The sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread were put into the basket by the furrier's daughter herself, for she packed it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	furrier	furrier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	packed	pack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past · passive | the furrier's daughter | the sweetest fresh butter and the finest bread |  | the basket |  | daughter *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal |
| 2 | **pack** | past | daughter | basket |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: 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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