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title: They had two coats of arms on their carriage, a coat of arms for eac… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had two coats of arms on their carriage, a coat of arms for each of them, and the gracious lady had had this coat of arms embroidered on both sides of every bit of linen she had, and even on her nightcap and her dressing-bag. Who acts: people, gracious lady, lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1, sentence 38

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They had two coats of arms on their carriage, a coat of arms for each of them, and the gracious lady had had this coat of arms embroidered on both sides of every bit of linen she had, and even on her nightcap and her dressing-bag.

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**Who acts:** people, gracious lady, lady · **What happens:** have, embroider · **To what, where:** two coats, carriage, coat, arms, sides, linen

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, gracious lady, lady), 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:pg27200:146:38
# text = They had two coats of arms on their carriage, a coat of arms for each of them, and the gracious lady had had this coat of arms embroidered on both sides of every bit of linen she had, and even on her nightcap and her dressing-bag.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
30	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	acl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	det	_	_
36	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
44	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	parataxis	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
49	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | people | two coats of arms |  | people's carriage |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past · perfect | the gracious lady | this coat of arms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  | arms *not said here* |  | both sides of every bit of linen |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past | lady | linen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=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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