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title: John opened it, and the old king, in a dressing gown and embroidered… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: John opened it, and the old king, in a dressing gown and embroidered slippers, came towards him. Who acts: John. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 53

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John opened it, and the old king, in a dressing gown and embroidered slippers, came towards him.

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**Who acts:** John · **What happens:** open, embroider, come · **To what, where:** hair, dressing gown, slippers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John), 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:pg27200:197:53
# text = John opened it, and the old king, in a dressing gown and embroidered slippers, came towards him.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dressing	dressing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	slippers	slipper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | John | hair |  | a dressing gown |  | the old king *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme in gown=Location |
| 2 | **embroider** | past | John *not said here* | slippers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slipper=Product |
| 3 | **come** | past | John *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards John | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards he=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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