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title: These things must keep the feet very warm," said he; "they are of su… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These things must keep the feet very warm," said he; "they are of such nice soft leather." Who acts: things, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures, sentence 5

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These things must keep the feet very warm," said he; "they are of such nice soft leather."

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**Who acts:** things, man · **What happens:** keep, say, be · **To what, where:** feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Watchman's Adventures. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, man), 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:pg27200:42:5
# text = These things must keep the feet very warm," said he; "they are of such nice soft leather."
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | must | this things | the feet |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | of such nice soft leather | 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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