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title: The rich shoemaker in the town took the measure of her little foot i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The rich shoemaker in the town took the measure of her little foot in his own room, in which there stood great glass cases full of pretty shoes and white slippers. Who acts: rich shoemaker. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 16

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The rich shoemaker in the town took the measure of her little foot in his own room, in which there stood great glass cases full of pretty shoes and white slippers.

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**Who acts:** rich shoemaker · **What happens:** take, stand, measure · **To what, where:** measure, own room, great glass cases, little foot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich shoemaker), 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:pg27200:154:16
# text = The rich shoemaker in the town took the measure of her little foot in his own room, in which there stood great glass cases full of pretty shoes and white slippers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	measure	measure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	cases	case	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the rich shoemaker in the town | the measure of shoemaker's little foot |  | mirror's own room |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent measure=Value in room=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the rich shoemaker in the town *not said here* | great glass cases |  | there |  | full *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme in which=Destination |
| 3 | **measure** |  |  | shoemaker's little foot |  |  |  |  | nom measure «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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