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title: People look at the dress, not at the wearer; thought more of a name… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: People look at the dress, not at the wearer; thought more of a name than of doing their duty; and trusted more to reputation than to real service. Who acts: People. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 86

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People look at the dress, not at the wearer; thought more of a name than of doing their duty; and trusted more to reputation than to real service.

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**Who acts:** People · **What happens:** look, think, do, trust · **To what, where:** more, duty, reputation

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (People), 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:pg27200:143:86
# text = People look at the dress, not at the wearer; thought more of a name than of doing their duty; and trusted more to reputation than to real service.
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wearer	wearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	reputation	reputation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	than	than	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | People |  |  |  |  | at the wearer; at the dress | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dress=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | People *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | gerund | People *not said here* | people's duty |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
| 4 | **trust** | past | People *not said here* | more | reputation |  |  | than real service | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent more=Theme to reputation=Recipient |

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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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