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title: In front of the procession ran the Harlequin, dressed in clothes mad… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In front of the procession ran the Harlequin, dressed in clothes made of all kinds of colored patches artfully sewn together, with a black face, and bells on his head like a sledge horse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 8

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In front of the procession ran the Harlequin, dressed in clothes made of all kinds of colored patches artfully sewn together, with a black face, and bells on his head like a sledge horse.

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**What happens:** run, dress, make, sew, bell · **To what, where:** Harlequin, front, clothes, colored patches, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:184:8
# text = In front of the procession ran the Harlequin, dressed in clothes made of all kinds of colored patches artfully sewn together, with a black face, and bells on his head like a sledge horse.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Harlequin	Harlequin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	10	obl	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	colored	colored	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	artfully	artfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sewn	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	together	together	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	bells	bell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  | the Harlequin |  | front of the procession |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent harlequin=Theme in front=Trajectory |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | the Harlequin *not said here* |  | clothes |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | clothes *not said here* |  |  |  | of all kinds of colored patches | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **sew** | participle |  | colored patches *not said here* |  |  |  | with a black face; artfully, together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with face=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **bell** | present |  |  |  | stick's head |  | like a sledge horse | tree rules |

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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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