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title: Aphtanides was clad in the blue dress worn by the Greek sailors; on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Aphtanides was clad in the blue dress worn by the Greek sailors; on his breast hung a silver medal with the figure of the Virgin Mary, and his scarf was as costly as those worn by rich lords. Who acts: scarf. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's St
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 112

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Aphtanides was clad in the blue dress worn by the Greek sailors; on his breast hung a silver medal with the figure of the Virgin Mary, and his scarf was as costly as those worn by rich lords.

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**Who acts:** scarf · **What happens:** clad, wear, hang, be, figure · **To what, where:** Aphtanides, blue dress, silver medal, breast, Virgin Mary

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scarf), 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:pg27200:36:112
# text = Aphtanides was clad in the blue dress worn by the Greek sailors; on his breast hung a silver medal with the figure of the Virgin Mary, and his scarf was as costly as those worn by rich lords.
1	Aphtanides	Aphtanides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	medal	medal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Virgin	Virgin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Mary	Mary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
37	worn	wear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clad** | past · passive |  | Aphtanides |  | the blue dress |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wear** | participle |  | the blue dress *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | a silver medal |  | Aphtanides's breast |  | with the figure of the Virgin Mary | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent medal=Patient with figure=Instrument |
| 4 | **is** | past | Aphtanides's scarf |  |  |  |  | as those; costly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **wear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by rich lords | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **figure** |  |  | the Virgin Mary |  |  |  |  | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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