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title: The gentlemen appeared clad in steel, or in rich cloaks lined with s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The gentlemen appeared clad in steel, or in rich cloaks lined with squirrel's fur; they wore little ruffs, and swords at their sides. Who acts: gentlemen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 78

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The gentlemen appeared clad in steel, or in rich cloaks lined with squirrel's fur; they wore little ruffs, and swords at their sides.

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**Who acts:** gentlemen · **What happens:** appear, clad, line, wear · **To what, where:** steel, rich cloaks, little ruffs, sides

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentlemen), 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:pg27200:212:78
# text = The gentlemen appeared clad in steel, or in rich cloaks lined with squirrel's fur; they wore little ruffs, and swords at their sides.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	steel	steel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ruffs	ruff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the gentlemen |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **clad** | participle | the gentlemen *not said here* |  |  | steel |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **line** | participle |  | rich cloaks *not said here* |  |  |  | with squirrel's fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with fur=Theme |
| 4 | **wear** | past | gentlemen *= gentleman* | little ruffs and swords |  | gentlemen's sides |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent ruff=Source |

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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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