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title: All this was very pretty, but the prettiest of all was a tiny little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All this was very pretty, but the prettiest of all was a tiny little lady, who stood at the open door of the castle; she, also, was made of paper, and she wore a dress of clear muslin, with a narrow blue ribbon over her shoulders just like a scarf. Who acts: this, tiny little lady, glass. A sentence
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 10

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All this was very pretty, but the prettiest of all was a tiny little lady, who stood at the open door of the castle; she, also, was made of paper, and she wore a dress of clear muslin, with a narrow blue ribbon over her shoulders just like a scarf.

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**Who acts:** this, tiny little lady, glass · **What happens:** be, stand, make, wear · **To what, where:** open door, glass, dress

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, tiny little lady, glass), 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:pg27200:192:10
# text = All this was very pretty, but the prettiest of all was a tiny little lady, who stood at the open door of the castle; she, also, was made of paper, and she wore a dress of clear muslin, with a narrow blue ribbon over her shoulders just like a scarf.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	muslin	muslin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	parataxis	_	_
51	over	over	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	_
54	just	just	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
55	like	like	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | pretty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of all tiny little lady | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | all tiny little lady |  |  | the open door of the castle |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 4 | **make** | past · passive |  | glass |  |  |  | of paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **wear** | past | glass | a dress of clear muslin |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=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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