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title: He was, however, quite as clean and neat as any other china figure;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He was, however, quite as clean and neat as any other china figure; he only represented a black chimney-sweep, and the china workers might just as well have made him a prince, had they felt inclined to do so. Who acts: beard, workers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. A
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 11

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He was, however, quite as clean and neat as any other china figure; he only represented a black chimney-sweep, and the china workers might just as well have made him a prince, had they felt inclined to do so.

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**Who acts:** beard, workers · **What happens:** be, represent, make, have, feel, do · **To what, where:** black chimney sweep, china workers

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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 (beard, workers), 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:pg27200:166:11
# text = He was, however, quite as clean and neat as any other china figure; he only represented a black chimney-sweep, and the china workers might just as well have made him a prince, had they felt inclined to do so.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	china	china	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	workers	worker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
31	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	35	cc	_	_
33	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	fixed	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	ccomp	_	_
43	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	xcomp	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | clean, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  | as any other china figure | tree rules |
| 3 | **represent** | past | beard | a black chimney sweep |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sweep=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | might · perfect · passive |  | the china workers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | beard *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | past | workers *= worker* |  |  |  |  | inclined *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | workers *= worker* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «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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