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title: The carpet was thick and soft, like a covering of moss. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The carpet was thick and soft, like a covering of moss. Who acts: carpet. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Last Pearl, sentence 4

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The carpet was thick and soft, like a covering of moss.

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**Who acts:** carpet · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Last Pearl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:4944`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:70:4
# text = The carpet was thick and soft, like a covering of moss.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the carpet |  |  |  |  | like a covering of moss; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the carpet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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