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title: This, as well as his singular dress, convinced the woman that he was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This, as well as his singular dress, convinced the woman that he was a foreigner. Who acts: This, singular dress, German. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor, sentence 62

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This, as well as his singular dress, convinced the woman that he was a foreigner.

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**Who acts:** This, singular dress, German · **What happens:** dress, convince, be · **To what, where:** woman, foreigner

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What Happened to the Counsellor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, singular dress, German), 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:pg27200:41:62
# text = This, as well as his singular dress, convinced the woman that he was a foreigner.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	8	cc	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	fixed	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	convinced	convince	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** |  | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **convince** | past | German's singular dress | the woman |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus woman=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | German | a foreigner |  |  |  |  | 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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