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title: The General's lady was Madame Rubens, in black velvet made high roun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The General's lady was Madame Rubens, in black velvet made high round the neck, exceedingly warm, and with a mill-stone round her neck in the shape of a great ruff--accurately dressed after a Dutch picture in the possession of the General, in which the hands were especially admired. Who acts: lady. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3, sentence 67

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The General's lady was Madame Rubens, in black velvet made high round the neck, exceedingly warm, and with a mill-stone round her neck in the shape of a great ruff--accurately dressed after a Dutch picture in the possession of the General, in which the hands were especially admired.

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** be, make, dress, admire, possess · **To what, where:** Madame, black velvet, great ruff, possession, hands, General

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg27200:148:67
# text = The General's lady was Madame Rubens, in black velvet made high round the neck, exceedingly warm, and with a mill-stone round her neck in the shape of a great ruff--accurately dressed after a Dutch picture in the possession of the General, in which the hands were especially admired.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	Madame	Madame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	Rubens	Rubens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
27	round	round	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ruff	ruff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	accurately	accurately	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	General	General	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	57	obl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
56	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	admired	admire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the General's lady | Madame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | black velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | round the neck; high *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | a great ruff *not said here* |  | the possession of the General | after a Dutch picture | accurately *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **admire** | past · passive |  | the hands |  |  |  | especially *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | the General |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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