--- title: In his right-hand pocket he had a letter of credit; in his left-hand… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In his right-hand pocket he had a letter of credit; in his left-hand pocket was his passport; and a few louis d'ors were sewn into a little leather bag which he carried in his breast-pocket. Who acts: head. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/) / 12 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 12 In his right-hand pocket he had a letter of credit; in his left-hand pocket was his passport; and a few louis d'ors were sewn into a little leather bag which he carried in his breast-pocket. **Who acts:** head · **What happens:** have, be, sew, carry, letter · **To what, where:** letter, hand pocket, passport, few louis d'ors, little leather bag, breast pocket This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:45:12 # text = In his right-hand pocket he had a letter of credit; in his left-hand pocket was his passport; and a few louis d'ors were sewn into a little leather bag which he carried in his breast-pocket. 1 In in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 3 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 credit credit NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 16 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 passport passport NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 louis Louis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 d'ors d'or NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 sewn sew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 leather leather NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 41 breast breast NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | head | a letter of credit | | head's hand pocket | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | past | | head's passport | | head's hand pocket | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sew** | past · passive | | a few louis d'ors | | a little leather bag | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into bag=Product | | 4 | **carry** | past | head | a little leather bag | | head's breast pocket | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent which=Value in pocket=Location | | 5 | **letter** | | | credit | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/13/) - ↑ back to [The Best Thing the Goloshes Did](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/45/)