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title: It was all old lumber, especially two portraits--one representing a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was all old lumber, especially two portraits--one representing a man in a scarlet coat with a wig, and the other a lady with powdered and curled hair holding a rose in her hand, each of them being surrounded by a large wreath of willow branches. Who acts: motto, one, other lady, curled hair. A se
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 59

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It was all old lumber, especially two portraits--one representing a man in a scarlet coat with a wig, and the other a lady with powdered and curled hair holding a rose in her hand, each of them being surrounded by a large wreath of willow branches.

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**Who acts:** motto, one, other lady, curled hair, large wreath · **What happens:** be, represent, powder, curl, hold, surround · **To what, where:** old lumber, man, curled hair, rose, hand, each

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (motto, one, other lady, curled hair), 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:pg27200:155:59
# text = It was all old lumber, especially two portraits--one representing a man in a scarlet coat with a wig, and the other a lady with powdered and curled hair holding a rose in her hand, each of them being surrounded by a large wreath of willow branches.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lumber	lumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nsubj	_	_
12	representing	represent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	wig	wig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
28	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	powdered	powder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	curled	curl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	amod	_	_
32	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	_
43	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
45	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl:agent	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | motto | all old lumber and a other lady |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | gerund | one | a man |  |  |  | with a wig; in a scarlet coat | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot man=Theme in coat=Attribute |
| 3 | **powder** | participle | a other lady *not said here* | curled hair |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 4 | **curl** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | gerund | curled hair *not said here* | a rose |  | passage's hand |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rose=Theme in hand=Location |
| 6 | **surround** | gerund · passive | a large wreath of willow branches | each |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |

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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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