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title: No; she wears a dress fit for a countess" (she had become one in the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: No; she wears a dress fit for a countess" (she had become one in the city of magic changes). " Who acts: one poor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 1, sentence 57

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No; she wears a dress fit for a countess" (she had become one in the city of magic changes). "

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**Who acts:** one poor · **What happens:** wear, become · **To what, where:** dress fit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (one poor), 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:pg27200:24:57
# text = No; she wears a dress fit for a countess" (she had become one in the city of magic changes). "
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	changes	change	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | present | one poor *= poor* | a dress fit |  |  |  | for a countess | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fit=Source |
| 2 | **become** *in a quote* | past · perfect | one poor *= poor* |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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