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title: The dog never went out in winter, unless she was attired in a little… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The dog never went out in winter, unless she was attired in a little lambskin coat which had been made for her; it was fastened round the little dog's neck and body with red ribbons, and was decorated with rosettes and little bells. Who acts: dog, little lambskin coat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 130

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The dog never went out in winter, unless she was attired in a little lambskin coat which had been made for her; it was fastened round the little dog's neck and body with red ribbons, and was decorated with rosettes and little bells.

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**Who acts:** dog, little lambskin coat · **What happens:** not go out, attire, make, fasten, decorate · **To what, where:** Bellissima, little lambskin coat, dog

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, little lambskin coat), 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:pg27200:89:130
# text = The dog never went out in winter, unless she was attired in a little lambskin coat which had been made for her; it was fastened round the little dog's neck and body with red ribbons, and was decorated with rosettes and little bells.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	lambskin	lambskin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:agent	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
28	round	round	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ribbons	ribbon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	rosettes	rosette	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **go out** | past | the dog |  |  |  | winter |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **attire** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | a little lambskin coat | Bellissima |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | a little lambskin coat |  |  |  | for Bellissima | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for she=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | dog |  |  |  | round the little dog's neck and body with red ribbons | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **decorate** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with rosettes and little bells | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with rosette=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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