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title: And he knew one thing more: he could embroider suspenders with roses… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And he knew one thing more: he could embroider suspenders with roses and other flowers, and with arabesques, for he was a tasty, light-fingered fellow. Who acts: other. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 6

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And he knew one thing more: he could embroider suspenders with roses and other flowers, and with arabesques, for he was a tasty, light-fingered fellow.

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**Who acts:** other · **What happens:** know, embroider, finger, be · **To what, where:** one thing, suspenders, tasty fingered fellow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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:pg27200:28:6
# text = And he knew one thing more: he could embroider suspenders with roses and other flowers, and with arabesques, for he was a tasty, light-fingered fellow.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	embroider	embroider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	suspenders	suspender	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	arabesques	arabesque	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
26	tasty	tasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	fingered	finger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | other | one thing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **embroider** | could | other | suspenders |  |  |  | with roses and other flowers | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent suspender=Destination with rose=Theme |
| 3 | **finger** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | other | a tasty fingered fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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