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title: They had a very singular appearance in their rough, hairy dresses of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They had a very singular appearance in their rough, hairy dresses of fur, and riding in sledges over the ice. Who acts: natives. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea, sentence 7

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They had a very singular appearance in their rough, hairy dresses of fur, and riding in sledges over the ice.

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**Who acts:** natives · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** singular appearance, rough hairy dresses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (natives), 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:pg27200:205:7
# text = They had a very singular appearance in their rough, hairy dresses of fur, and riding in sledges over the ice.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
9	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	hairy	hairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | natives *= native* | a singular appearance |  | natives's rough hairy dresses of fur |  | riding in sledges over the ice *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Patient |

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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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