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title: The crests of the proprietors were engraved on silver shields on the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The crests of the proprietors were engraved on silver shields on the velvet-bound prayer-books, and embroidered in the corners of perfumed handkerchiefs bordered with Brussels lace. Who acts: silver. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 2, sentence 125

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The crests of the proprietors were engraved on silver shields on the velvet-bound prayer-books, and embroidered in the corners of perfumed handkerchiefs bordered with Brussels lace.

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**Who acts:** silver · **What happens:** engrave, shield, embroider, perfume, border · **To what, where:** crests, bound prayer books, corners, perfumed handkerchiefs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (silver), 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:pg27200:25:125
# text = The crests of the proprietors were engraved on silver shields on the velvet-bound prayer-books, and embroidered in the corners of perfumed handkerchiefs bordered with Brussels lace.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crests	crest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	proprietors	proprietor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	engraved	engrave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shields	shield	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
13	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	handkerchiefs	handkerchief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
28	bordered	border	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	Brussels	Brussels	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	lace	lace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **engrave** | past · passive |  | the crests of the proprietors |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 2 | **shield** | present | silver |  |  | the bound prayer books |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  |  |  | the corners of perfumed handkerchiefs |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent in corner=Destination |
| 4 | **perfume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **border** | participle |  | perfumed handkerchiefs *not said here* |  |  |  | with Brussels lace | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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