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title: The silk dresses rustled, the leather repeated its rhyme, and the ol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The silk dresses rustled, the leather repeated its rhyme, and the old chairs had the gout in their backs, and cried, "Creak;" it was all exactly like the first time; for in that house, one day and one hour were just like another. " Who acts: silk, leather, old chairs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of H
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 81

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The silk dresses rustled, the leather repeated its rhyme, and the old chairs had the gout in their backs, and cried, "Creak;" it was all exactly like the first time; for in that house, one day and one hour were just like another. "

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**Who acts:** silk, leather, old chairs · **What happens:** dress, rustle, repeat, have, cry, be · **To what, where:** rhyme, gout, backs, Creak

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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 (silk, leather, old chairs), 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:pg27200:131:81
# text = The silk dresses rustled, the leather repeated its rhyme, and the old chairs had the gout in their backs, and cried, "Creak;" it was all exactly like the first time; for in that house, one day and one hour were just like another. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dresses	dress	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gout	gout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Creak	creak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	37	amod	_	_
37	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
42	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nummod	_	_
45	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	just	just	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | present | the silk |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rustle** | participle | the silk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **repeat** | past | the leather | leather's rhyme |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhyme=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | past | the old chairs | the gout |  | Chairs's backs |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gout=Patient |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the old chairs *not said here* | Creak |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | past | silk |  |  |  | like the first time | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **rhyme** |  | leather |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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