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title: Have you ever seen an old wooden cupboard quite black with age, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Have you ever seen an old wooden cupboard quite black with age, and ornamented with carved foliage and curious figures? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 1

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Have you ever seen an old wooden cupboard quite black with age, and ornamented with carved foliage and curious figures?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** see, ornament, carve · **To what, where:** old wooden cupboard

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg27200:166:1
# text = Have you ever seen an old wooden cupboard quite black with age, and ornamented with carved foliage and curious figures?
1	Have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | you | a old wooden cupboard |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cupboard=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ornament** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with carved foliage and curious figures | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with foliage=Theme |
| 3 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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