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title: This was what the lady had so carefully plucked, and carried home so… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This was what the lady had so carefully plucked, and carried home so safely covered, so that not one of the delicate feathery arrows of which its mist-like shape was so lightly formed, should flutter away. Who acts: This, lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch, sentence 51

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This was what the lady had so carefully plucked, and carried home so safely covered, so that not one of the delicate feathery arrows of which its mist-like shape was so lightly formed, should flutter away.

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**Who acts:** This, lady · **What happens:** be, have, pluck, carry, cover, form · **To what, where:** like shape

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Conceited Apple-branch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, lady), 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:pg27200:6:51
# text = This was what the lady had so carefully plucked, and carried home so safely covered, so that not one of the delicate feathery arrows of which its mist-like shape was so lightly formed, should flutter away.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
13	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	feathery	feathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
29	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
30	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	flutter	flutter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
41	away	away	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pluck** | participle | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry** | past |  |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **form** | past · passive |  | leaf's like shape |  |  |  | of the delicate feathery arrows; lightly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **flutter away** | should |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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