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title: She had a green linen apron thrown over her head and shoulders, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She had a green linen apron thrown over her head and shoulders, and it was quite wet, as if it had been raining heavily. " Who acts: grass, apron, it. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 49

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She had a green linen apron thrown over her head and shoulders, and it was quite wet, as if it had been raining heavily. "

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**Who acts:** grass, apron, it · **What happens:** have, throw, be, rain · **To what, where:** green linen apron, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, apron, it), 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:pg27200:80:49
# text = She had a green linen apron thrown over her head and shoulders, and it was quite wet, as if it had been raining heavily. "
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux	_	_
25	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	_
26	heavily	heavily	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | grass | a green linen apron |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | participle |  | a green linen apron *not said here* |  | grass's head and shoulders |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent over head=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | past | apron |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rain** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · progressive | it |  |  |  |  | heavily *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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