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title: The trains to their dresses were very long, according to the fashion… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The trains to their dresses were very long, according to the fashion; while the prettiest of wooden dolls, with glass eyes and large mustaches, stood at the doors, and opened and shut them, that the fresh air might come into the room. Who acts: trains, fresh air. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1, sentence 110

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The trains to their dresses were very long, according to the fashion; while the prettiest of wooden dolls, with glass eyes and large mustaches, stood at the doors, and opened and shut them, that the fresh air might come into the room.

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**Who acts:** trains, fresh air · **What happens:** be, accord, stand, open, shut, come · **To what, where:** fashion, doors, trains, room

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trains, fresh air), 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:pg27200:196:110
# text = The trains to their dresses were very long, according to the fashion; while the prettiest of wooden dolls, with glass eyes and large mustaches, stood at the doors, and opened and shut them, that the fresh air might come into the room.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trains	train	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	according	accord	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	dolls	doll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mustaches	mustache	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
29	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | past | the trains to trains's dresses |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **accord** | gerund | the trains to trains's dresses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the fashion *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to fashion=Goal |
| 3 | **be** |  | the trains to trains's dresses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | the doors |  | of wooden dolls and glass eyes and large mustaches | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 5 | **open** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shut** | past |  | trains *= train* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **come** | might | the fresh air |  |  | the room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |

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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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