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title: The tailors had a flag with a pair of scissors supported by two lion… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tailors had a flag with a pair of scissors supported by two lions, and on the shoemakers' flag there were not boots, but an eagle with two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything arranged so that they can say, "This is a pair." Who acts: tailors, eagle, This. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 59

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The tailors had a flag with a pair of scissors supported by two lions, and on the shoemakers' flag there were not boots, but an eagle with two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything arranged so that they can say, "This is a pair."

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**Who acts:** tailors, eagle, This · **What happens:** have, support, arrange, say, be · **To what, where:** flag, scissors, everything, pair · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tailors, eagle, This), 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:pg27200:131:59
# text = The tailors had a flag with a pair of scissors supported by two lions, and on the shoemakers' flag there were not boots, but an eagle with two heads, for the shoemakers must have everything arranged so that they can say, "This is a pair."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tailors	tailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
37	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
39	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	38	obj	_	_
40	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	45	mark	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	nsubj	_	_
49	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the tailors | a flag |  |  |  | with a pair of scissors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flag=Patient |
| 2 | **support** | participle |  | scissors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **have** | must | a eagle with two heads and the shoemakers | everything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 4 | **arrange** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | can | eagle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | This | a pair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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