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title: "You old rag," said the flat-iron, driving proudly over the collar,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You old rag," said the flat-iron, driving proudly over the collar, for she fancied herself a steam-engine, which rolls over the railway and draws carriages. " Who acts: You, old rag, rag, steam engine. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 24

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"You old rag," said the flat-iron, driving proudly over the collar, for she fancied herself a steam-engine, which rolls over the railway and draws carriages. "

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**Who acts:** You, old rag, rag, steam engine · **What happens:** rag, say, drive, fancy, roll, draw · **To what, where:** flat iron, collar, rag, railway, carriages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old rag, rag, steam engine), 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:pg27200:168:24
# text = "You old rag," said the flat-iron, driving proudly over the collar, for she fancied herself a steam-engine, which rolls over the railway and draws carriages. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	steam	steam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	railway	railway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	draws	draw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	carriages	carriage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rag** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | old rag | the flat iron |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iron=Topic |
| 3 | **drive** | gerund | old rag *not said here* |  |  | the collar |  | proudly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over collar=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fancy** | past | rag | rag |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **roll** | present | a steam engine |  |  | the railway |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over railway=Trajectory |
| 6 | **draw** | present | a steam engine *not said here* | carriages |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme |

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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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