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title: Then he comforted her, and showed her how to place her little foot o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he comforted her, and showed her how to place her little foot on the carved edge and gilt-leaf ornaments of the table. Who acts: profession. 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 ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 28

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Then he comforted her, and showed her how to place her little foot on the carved edge and gilt-leaf ornaments of the table.

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**Who acts:** profession · **What happens:** comfort, show, carve · **To what, where:** sweep

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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 (profession), 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:pg27200:166:28
# text = Then he comforted her, and showed her how to place her little foot on the carved edge and gilt-leaf ornaments of the table.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	gilt	gilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	ornaments	ornament	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comfort** | past | profession | sweep |  |  | then |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
| 2 | **show** | past | profession *not said here* |  | sweep |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 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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