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title: In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat down and made, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes out of some old pieces of red cloth. Who acts: wife. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 3

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In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat down and made, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes out of some old pieces of red cloth.

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** live, sit down, make · **To what, where:** wife, middle, pair

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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 (wife), 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:pg27200:154:3
# text = In the middle of the village lived an old shoemaker's wife; she sat down and made, as well as she could, a pair of little shoes out of some old pieces of red cloth.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	24	cc	_	_
21	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	fixed	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a old shoemaker's wife |  | the middle of the village |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme wife=Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | wife | a pair of little shoes out some old pieces of red cloth |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | participle | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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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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