--- title: He is nicely dressed; his coat is made of silken stuff; it is imposs… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He is nicely dressed; his coat is made of silken stuff; it is impossible to say of what color, for it changes from green to red, and from red to blue as he turns from side to side. Who acts: color, Oie. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (color, Oie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:134:6 # text = He is nicely dressed; his coat is made of silken stuff; it is impossible to say of what color, for it changes from green to red, and from red to blue as he turns from side to side. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 3 nicely nicely ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 dressed dress VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 expl _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 csubj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 ccomp _ _ 21 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 for for SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 39 from from ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | present · passive | | Oie | | | | nicely *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present · passive | | Oie's coat | | | | of silken stuff | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | impossible *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **change** | present | color | | | green | | to red *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from green=Initial\_State to red=Result | | 6 | **turn** | present | Oie | | | side to side | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from side=Trajectory | 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. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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