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title: What red cheeks and what angels' eyes! but they have no shoes nor st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: What red cheeks and what angels' eyes! but they have no shoes nor stockings. Who acts: red cheeks, cheeks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, By the Almshouse Window, sentence 9

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What red cheeks and what angels' eyes! but they have no shoes nor stockings.

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**Who acts:** red cheeks, cheeks · **What happens:** eye, have · **To what, where:** shoes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, By the Almshouse Window. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (red cheeks, cheeks), 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:pg27200:3:9
# text = What red cheeks and what angels' eyes! but they have no shoes nor stockings.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
6	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	'	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eye** |  | red cheeks and angels's eyes |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | cheeks *= cheek* | no shoes nor stockings |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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