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title: A footman dressed in silk and velvet stood with a large silver-mount… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A footman dressed in silk and velvet stood with a large silver-mounted rod near the entrance. Who acts: footman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 47

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A footman dressed in silk and velvet stood with a large silver-mounted rod near the entrance.

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**Who acts:** footman · **What happens:** dress, stand, mount · **To what, where:** footman, silk, large mounted rod, entrance

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (footman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:35`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:2:47
# text = A footman dressed in silk and velvet stood with a large silver-mounted rod near the entrance.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	footman	footman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	_
14	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | participle |  | a footman *not said here* |  | silk and velvet |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a footman | a large mounted rod |  | the entrance |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near entrance=Location |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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