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title: The people, certainly, in those days, wore very different dresses to… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The people, certainly, in those days, wore very different dresses to those they now wear, but if any of them, be he huntsman or squire, master or servant, ventured on the wavering, undulating, marshy ground of the moor, they met with the same fate a thousand years ago as they would now. Who acts: pe
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1, sentence 14

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The people, certainly, in those days, wore very different dresses to those they now wear, but if any of them, be he huntsman or squire, master or servant, ventured on the wavering, undulating, marshy ground of the moor, they met with the same fate a thousand years ago as they would now.

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**Who acts:** people, fly · **What happens:** wear, be, venture, undulate, meet · **To what, where:** different dresses, huntsman, wavering

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, fly), 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:pg27200:83:14
# text = The people, certainly, in those days, wore very different dresses to those they now wear, but if any of them, be he huntsman or squire, master or servant, ventured on the wavering, undulating, marshy ground of the moor, they met with the same fate a thousand years ago as they would now.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	advcl	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	squire	squire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	parataxis	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wavering	wavering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	undulating	undulate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	marshy	marshy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	moor	moor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
49	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	nummod	_	_
57	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	obl:unmarked	_	_
58	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
59	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
60	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
62	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear** | past | the people and that days | different dresses |  |  |  | to those | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Theme |
| 2 | **wear** | present | people |  |  |  | now |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | fly | any huntsman or squire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **venture** | participle |  |  |  | the wavering and marshy ground of the moor |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **undulate** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **meet** | past | people |  |  |  |  | with the same fate; ago *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fate=Co-Agent |

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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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