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title: The next day, however, he procured some good clothes and proper boot… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The next day, however, he procured some good clothes and proper boots, so that our soldier soon became known as a fine gentleman, and the people visited him, and told him all the wonders that were to be seen in the town, and of the king's beautiful daughter, the princess. Who acts: soldier, people. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 49

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The next day, however, he procured some good clothes and proper boots, so that our soldier soon became known as a fine gentleman, and the people visited him, and told him all the wonders that were to be seen in the town, and of the king's beautiful daughter, the princess.

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**Who acts:** soldier, people · **What happens:** procure, know, visit, tell, see · **To what, where:** good clothes, soldier, wonders, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, people), 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:pg27200:193:49
# text = The next day, however, he procured some good clothes and proper boots, so that our soldier soon became known as a fine gentleman, and the people visited him, and told him all the wonders that were to be seen in the town, and of the king's beautiful daughter, the princess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	39	det:predet	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wonders	wonder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	ccomp	_	_
40	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** | past | soldier | some good clothes and proper boots |  |  | day | however *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | our soldier |  |  |  | as a fine gentleman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as gentleman=Attribute |
| 3 | **visit** | past | the people | soldier |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | soldier *not said here* |  | soldier |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive | soldier *not said here* | all wonders |  | the town |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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