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title: Trateratra!” and the swords and armor on the knights' portraits ratt… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Trateratra!” and the swords and armor on the knights' portraits rattled, and the silk gowns rustled; the hog's leather spoke, and the old chairs had the gout in their legs and rheumatism in their backs: Ugh! it was exactly like the first time, for over there one day and hour was just like another. W
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 67

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Trateratra!” and the swords and armor on the knights' portraits rattled, and the silk gowns rustled; the hog's leather spoke, and the old chairs had the gout in their legs and rheumatism in their backs: Ugh! it was exactly like the first time, for over there one day and hour was just like another.

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**Who acts:** silk, leather, old chairs, knights · **What happens:** rattle, gown, rustle, speak, have, be · **To what, where:** portraits, Trateratra, gout, legs · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silk, leather, old chairs, knights), 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:pg1597:19:67
# text = Trateratra!” and the swords and armor on the knights' portraits rattled, and the silk gowns rustled; the hog's leather spoke, and the old chairs had the gout in their legs and rheumatism in their backs: Ugh! it was exactly like the first time, for over there one day and hour was just like another.
1	Trateratra	Trateratra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	armor	armor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	portraits	portrait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
14	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gowns	gown	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
20	rustled	rustle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hog	hog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	gout	gout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	rheumatism	rheumatism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
44	Ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	52	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
48	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
49	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	52	amod	_	_
52	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	for	for	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	over	over	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	conj	_	_
57	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	58	nummod	_	_
58	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
62	just	just	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
63	like	like	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
64	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rattle** *in a quote* | participle |  | the knights's portraits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gown** *in a quote* | present | the silk |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rustle** *in a quote* | participle · passive |  | Trateratra and the swords and armor on the knights's portraits |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | the hog's leather |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | the old chairs | the gout |  | chairs's legs and rheumatism |  | in chairs's backs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gout=Patient |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | leather |  |  |  | like the first time | exactly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **portray** *in a quote* |  | the knights |  |  |  |  |  | nom portrait «communication transitive»: poss=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:** «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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