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title: The servants' pages, who always wore slippers, could hardly be looke… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The servants' pages, who always wore slippers, could hardly be looked at, they held themselves up so proudly by the door." Who acts: pages, boots, servants. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Prince and Princess, sentence 56

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The servants' pages, who always wore slippers, could hardly be looked at, they held themselves up so proudly by the door."

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**Who acts:** pages, boots, servants · **What happens:** wear, look, hold up, page · **To what, where:** slippers, pages, boots

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Prince and Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pages, boots, servants), 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:pg27200:173:56
# text = The servants' pages, who always wore slippers, could hardly be looked at, they held themselves up so proudly by the door."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the servants's pages | slippers |  |  |  | always *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent slipper=Theme |
| 2 | **look** | could · passive |  | the servants's pages |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 3 | **hold up** | past | boots *= boot* | boots *= boot* |  |  |  | by the door; proudly *property* | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **page** |  | the servants |  |  |  |  |  | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=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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