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title: But the ball, which wore a dress of morocco leather, and thought as… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the ball, which wore a dress of morocco leather, and thought as much of herself as any other young lady, would not even condescend to reply. Who acts: ball. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Top and Ball, sentence 2

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But the ball, which wore a dress of morocco leather, and thought as much of herself as any other young lady, would not even condescend to reply.

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**Who acts:** ball · **What happens:** wear, think, not condescend, reply · **To what, where:** dress, much

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Top and Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ball), 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:pg27200:195:2
# text = But the ball, which wore a dress of morocco leather, and thought as much of herself as any other young lady, would not even condescend to reply.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	morocco	morocco	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	as	as	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	even	even	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	condescend	condescend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the ball | a dress of morocco's leather |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | much |  |  |  | as any other young lady | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **condescend** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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