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title: We knew that we were rich, for the other trees only wore their green… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: We knew that we were rich, for the other trees only wore their green dress in summer, but our family were able to array themselves in green, summer and winter. Who acts: We, other trees, family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk, with its depe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flying Trunk, sentence 40

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We knew that we were rich, for the other trees only wore their green dress in summer, but our family were able to array themselves in green, summer and winter.

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**Who acts:** We, other trees, family · **What happens:** know, be, wear, array · **To what, where:** green dress, trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flying Trunk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, other trees, family), 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:pg27200:35:40
# text = We knew that we were rich, for the other trees only wore their green dress in summer, but our family were able to array themselves in green, summer and winter.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	array	array	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | we |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wear** | past | the other trees | trees's green dress |  |  | summer |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | our family |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **array** | to-infinitive | our family *not said here* | trees *= tree* |  |  | summer |  | 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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