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title: Gayly-dressed serving-men, adorned with trappings like sleigh horses… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Gayly-dressed serving-men, adorned with trappings like sleigh horses, walked to and fro, and some reclined at their ease upon the carved oak seats, as if they were the masters of the house. Who acts: dressed serving men, men. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Psyche, sentence 76

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Gayly-dressed serving-men, adorned with trappings like sleigh horses, walked to and fro, and some reclined at their ease upon the carved oak seats, as if they were the masters of the house.

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**Who acts:** dressed serving men, men · **What happens:** dress, adorn, walk, fro, recline, carve · **To what, where:** some, ease

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Psyche. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressed serving men, men), 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:pg27200:151:76
# text = Gayly-dressed serving-men, adorned with trappings like sleigh horses, walked to and fro, and some reclined at their ease upon the carved oak seats, as if they were the masters of the house.
1	Gayly	gayly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
4	serving	serving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	sleigh	sleigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	reclined	recline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
29	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	seats	seat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	masters	master	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **adorn** | participle | dressed serving men |  |  |  |  | with trappings like sleigh horses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with trapping=Theme |
| 3 | **walk** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fro** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **recline** | participle · passive |  | some |  | men's ease |  | upon the carved oak seats | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at ease=Destination |
| 6 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | as the masters; of the house | tree rules |

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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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