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title: On Sundays I go out walking in shoes and white silk stockings, and a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On Sundays I go out walking in shoes and white silk stockings, and a muff." Who acts: I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers, sentence 48

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On Sundays I go out walking in shoes and white silk stockings, and a muff."

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** go out, walk · **To what, where:** muff, shoes

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Mail-coach Passengers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg27200:82:48
# text = On Sundays I go out walking in shoes and white silk stockings, and a muff."
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Sundays	Sunday	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	stockings	stocking	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	muff	muff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go out** | present | I | a muff |  |  | sunday | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  | shoes and white silk stockings |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shoe=Trajectory |

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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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