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title: He was dressed in a suit of the very finest black cloth, polished bo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was dressed in a suit of the very finest black cloth, polished boots, and an opera crush hat, which could be folded together so that nothing could be seen but the crown and the rim, besides the trinkets, the gold chain, and the diamond rings already spoken of. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 86

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He was dressed in a suit of the very finest black cloth, polished boots, and an opera crush hat, which could be folded together so that nothing could be seen but the crown and the rim, besides the trinkets, the gold chain, and the diamond rings already spoken of.

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**What happens:** dress, polish, fold, see, speak · **To what, where:** man, suit, opera crush hat, nothing, diamond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg27200:165:86
# text = He was dressed in a suit of the very finest black cloth, polished boots, and an opera crush hat, which could be folded together so that nothing could be seen but the crown and the rim, besides the trinkets, the gold chain, and the diamond rings already spoken of.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	polished	polish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	opera	opera	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	crush	crush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
27	together	together	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	trinkets	trinket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux:pass	_	_
53	already	already	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive |  | man |  | a suit of the finest black cloth and polished boots |  | a opera crush hat *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **polish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fold** | could · passive |  | a opera crush hat |  |  |  | together *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | could · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | besides the trinkets and the gold chain | tree rules |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | the diamond |  |  |  |  | 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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