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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 45

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The house was filled to suffocation; and among other pieces to be recited was a new poem by H. C. Andersen, called, My Aunt's Spectacles; the contents of which were pretty nearly as follows:

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**Who acts:** other pieces · **What happens:** fill, recite, be, call · **To what, where:** house, new poem · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other pieces), 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:pg1597:7:45
# text = The house was filled to suffocation; and among other pieces to be recited was a new poem by H. C. Andersen, called, My Aunt's Spectacles; the contents of which were pretty nearly as follows:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	suffocation	suffocation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	recited	recite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	H.	H.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	C.	C.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	Andersen	Andersen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
27	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	Spectacles	Spectacles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	4	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
36	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
39	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | to suffocation; the contents *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **recite** | to-infinitive · passive | other pieces *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **is a** | past | other pieces | a new poem |  |  |  | by H. C. | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | participle |  | a new poem *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of the contents; follow, nearly *property* | 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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