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title: At night the boxes and other effects of the passengers were placed a… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At night the boxes and other effects of the passengers were placed against the rickety doors. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 101

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At night the boxes and other effects of the passengers were placed against the rickety doors.

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**What happens:** place, effect · **To what, where:** boxes, rickety doors, passengers

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg1597:9:101
# text = At night the boxes and other effects of the passengers were placed against the rickety doors.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	rickety	rickety	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | the boxes and other effects of the passengers |  | the rickety doors | night |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme against door=Destination |
| 2 | **effect** |  |  | the passengers |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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