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title: He wanted to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the cl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanted to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the clerk could only afford ordinary grease; and upon that point they split. Who acts: Such, boots, clerk. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper, sentence 8

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He wanted to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the clerk could only afford ordinary grease; and upon that point they split.

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**Who acts:** Such, boots, clerk · **What happens:** want, have, clean, afford, split · **To what, where:** ordinary grease

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole the Tower-keeper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, boots, clerk), 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:pg27200:135:8
# text = He wanted to have his boots cleaned with patent blacking, and the clerk could only afford ordinary grease; and upon that point they split.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	patent	patent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	blacking	blacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
18	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	grease	grease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Such |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Such *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clean** | past | Such's boots |  |  |  |  | with patent blacking | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blacking=Instrument |
| 4 | **afford** | could | the clerk | ordinary grease |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **split** | past | boots *= boot* |  |  |  |  | upon that point | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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