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title: Old Elsie had pulled off her wooden shoes, and stood there in her st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Old Elsie had pulled off her wooden shoes, and stood there in her stockings, to do honor to the noble guests. Who acts: Old Elsie. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 74

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Old Elsie had pulled off her wooden shoes, and stood there in her stockings, to do honor to the noble guests.

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**Who acts:** Old Elsie · **What happens:** pull off, stand, do · **To what, where:** wooden shoes, stockings, honor

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Elsie), 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:pg27200:147:74
# text = Old Elsie had pulled off her wooden shoes, and stood there in her stockings, to do honor to the noble guests.
1	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	guests	guest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull off** | past · perfect | Old Elsie | Elsie's wooden shoes |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Eventuality |
| 2 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | Elsie's stockings; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stocking=Location |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | honor |  |  |  | to the noble guests | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Eventuality |

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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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