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title: Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain st… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers. Who acts: Portraits. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 69

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Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers.

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**Who acts:** Portraits · **What happens:** hang, stand · **To what, where:** walls, two large Chinese vases, white porcelain stove

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Portraits), 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:pg1597:10:69
# text = Portraits were hanging on the walls, and near the white porcelain stove stood two large Chinese vases with lions on the covers.
1	Portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	near	near	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	porcelain	porcelain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	covers	cover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · progressive | Portraits |  |  | the walls |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Portraits *not said here* | two large Chinese vases |  | the white porcelain stove |  | with lions; on the covers | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vas=Theme near stove=Destination |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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