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title: He also had an assistant, a lad who understood as well as he himself… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He also had an assistant, a lad who understood as well as he himself did how to make wooden shoes strong, but light, and in the fashion. Who acts: Jeppe, lad. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 6

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He also had an assistant, a lad who understood as well as he himself did how to make wooden shoes strong, but light, and in the fashion.

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**Who acts:** Jeppe, lad · **What happens:** have, understand, make · **To what, where:** assistant, wooden shoes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jeppe, lad), 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:pg27200:51:6
# text = He also had an assistant, a lad who understood as well as he himself did how to make wooden shoes strong, but light, and in the fashion.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	assistant	assistant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	14	nmod:unmarked	_	_
16	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
20	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fashion	fashion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Jeppe | a assistant |  |  |  | light *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent assistant=Patient |
| 2 | **understand** | past | a lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | past · do-support | Jeppe | wooden shoes |  |  |  | strong *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product |

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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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