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title: They carved shoes and spoons, which paid well; therefore no one coul… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They carved shoes and spoons, which paid well; therefore no one could justly call Jeppe Jans and his family poor people. Who acts: shoes, one, Jeppe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 7

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They carved shoes and spoons, which paid well; therefore no one could justly call Jeppe Jans and his family poor people.

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**Who acts:** shoes, one, Jeppe · **What happens:** carve, pay, call, people · **To what, where:** shoes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shoes, one, Jeppe), 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:pg27200:51:7
# text = They carved shoes and spoons, which paid well; therefore no one could justly call Jeppe Jans and his family poor people.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spoons	spoon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	justly	justly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	Jeppe	Jeppe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	Jans	Jan	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	flat	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past | shoes *= shoe* | shoes and spoons |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 2 | **pay** | past | shoes and spoons |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** *speech: assert* | could | no one |  |  |  |  | justly, therefore *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **people** |  | Jeppe and Jeppe's family |  |  |  |  |  | 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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