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title: Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries than for their own clothes, and so I have dressed out my shadow like a man; nay, you may observe that I have even given him a shadow of his own; it is rather expensive, but I like to have things about me that are peculiar." Who acts: P
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 195

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Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries than for their own clothes, and so I have dressed out my shadow like a man; nay, you may observe that I have even given him a shadow of his own; it is rather expensive, but I like to have things about me that are peculiar."

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**Who acts:** Persons, I, you, side, things, my · **What happens:** give, dress out, observe, be, like, have · **To what, where:** finer cloth, servants, shadow, man, things, peculiar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Persons, I, you, side), 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:pg27200:165:195
# text = Persons often give their servants finer cloth for their liveries than for their own clothes, and so I have dressed out my shadow like a man; nay, you may observe that I have even given him a shadow of his own; it is rather expensive, but I like to have things about me that are peculiar."
1	Persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	iobj	_	_
6	finer	fine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	liveries	livery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	nay	nay	INTJ	UH	_	33	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	observe	observe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	even	even	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	ccomp	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	iobj	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	expensive	expensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obj	_	_
57	about	about	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	nmod	_	_
59	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	61	nsubj	_	_
60	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
61	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Persons | finer cloth | persons's servants |  |  | for persons's liveries than persons's own clothes; often *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient cloth=Theme for livery=Asset |
| 2 | **dress out** | present · perfect | I | my shadow |  |  |  | like a man | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Patient |
| 3 | **observe** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | present · perfect | I | a shadow of man's own | man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient shadow=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | present | side |  |  |  |  | expensive *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **like** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 7 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | things |  |  |  | about me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 8 | **is a** | present | things | peculiar |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **shadow** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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