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title: A long, white garment fell in graceful folds over her delicate form,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A long, white garment fell in graceful folds over her delicate form, and on her white neck and bosom hung a chain entwined with old and new coins, forming a kind of collar. Who acts: long white garment, garment. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 116

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A long, white garment fell in graceful folds over her delicate form, and on her white neck and bosom hung a chain entwined with old and new coins, forming a kind of collar.

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**Who acts:** long white garment, garment · **What happens:** fall, hang, entwine, form · **To what, where:** graceful folds, chain, white neck, kind

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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 (long white garment, garment), 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:pg27200:36:116
# text = A long, white garment fell in graceful folds over her delicate form, and on her white neck and bosom hung a chain entwined with old and new coins, forming a kind of collar.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	entwined	entwine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **fall** | past | a long white garment |  |  | graceful folds |  | over garment's delicate form | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fold=Location |
| 2 | **hang** | past | a long white garment *not said here* | a chain |  | garment's white neck and bosom |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chain=Theme on neck=Destination |
| 3 | **entwine** | participle |  | a chain *not said here* |  |  |  | with old coins | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with coin=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **form** | gerund | a long white garment *not said here* | a kind of collar |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location kind=Theme |
| 5 | **form** |  | garment |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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