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title: What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?” cried… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?” cried he involuntarily, as he looked at East Gate, which, in those days, was at the end of East Street. Who acts: wooden scaffolding, scaffolding. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, wi
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 1, sentence 74

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What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?” cried he involuntarily, as he looked at East Gate, which, in those days, was at the end of East Street.

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**Who acts:** wooden scaffolding, scaffolding · **What happens:** scaffolding, be, set up, cry, look · **To what, where:** wooden scaffolding, end

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, 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 (wooden scaffolding, scaffolding), 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:pg1597:5:74
# text = What wooden scaffolding is that which they have set up there?” cried he involuntarily, as he looked at East Gate, which, in those days, was at the end of East Street.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	scaffolding	scaffolding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	involuntarily	involuntarily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Gate	Gate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Street	Street	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scaffolding** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | wooden scaffolding |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set up** | present · perfect · passive |  | wooden scaffolding |  | there |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | wooden scaffolding |  |  |  |  | involuntarily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **look** *in a quote* | past | scaffolding |  |  |  |  | at East Gate and that days | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at gate=Theme |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past |  |  |  |  | at the end | of East Street | tree rules |

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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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