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title: Silver plate, and fine linen and woollen, went off to Copenhagen in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Silver plate, and fine linen and woollen, went off to Copenhagen in a ship, while the bride made the journey by land in ten days. Who acts: Silver plate, bride. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 56

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Silver plate, and fine linen and woollen, went off to Copenhagen in a ship, while the bride made the journey by land in ten days.

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**Who acts:** Silver plate, bride · **What happens:** go off, make · **To what, where:** Copenhagen, ship, journey

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Silver plate, bride), 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:pg27200:149:56
# text = Silver plate, and fine linen and woollen, went off to Copenhagen in a ship, while the bride made the journey by land in ten days.
1	Silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	woollen	woollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Copenhagen	Copenhagen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go off** | past | Silver plate and fine linen |  | Copenhagen | a ship |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ship=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | the bride | the journey |  |  | day | by land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Product |

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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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