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title: Amongst the shoes stood a pair of red ones, like those which the pri… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Amongst the shoes stood a pair of red ones, like those which the princess had worn. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 18

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Amongst the shoes stood a pair of red ones, like those which the princess had worn.

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**What happens:** stand, wear · **To what, where:** pair, shoes, princess

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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: 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:pg27200:154:18
# text = Amongst the shoes stood a pair of red ones, like those which the princess had worn.
1	Amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | a pair of red ones |  | the shoes |  | like those | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pair=Theme amongst shoe=Destination |
| 2 | **wear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the princess |  |  |  |  | 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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