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title: All the rags were made into white paper, and the shirt collar became… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All the rags were made into white paper, and the shirt collar became the very identical piece of paper which we now see, and on which this story is printed. Who acts: shirt collar, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shirt-collar, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shirt-collar, sentence 51

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All the rags were made into white paper, and the shirt collar became the very identical piece of paper which we now see, and on which this story is printed.

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**Who acts:** shirt collar, we · **What happens:** make, become, see, print · **To what, where:** rags, white paper, identical piece, story

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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 (shirt collar, we), 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:pg27200:168:51
# text = All the rags were made into white paper, and the shirt collar became the very identical piece of paper which we now see, and on which this story is printed.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	identical	identical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | all rags |  | white paper |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into paper=Product |
| 2 | **become** | past | the shirt collar | the identical piece of paper |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | present | we | the identical piece of paper |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 4 | **print** | present · passive |  | this story |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on which=Destination |

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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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