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title: On the walls were displayed innumerable inscriptions, written in nea… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 97

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On the walls were displayed innumerable inscriptions, written in nearly every language of Europe, some in verse, some in prose, most of them not very laudatory of “bella Italia.”

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**What happens:** display, write · **To what, where:** innumerable inscriptions, walls, language

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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:pg1597:9:97
# text = On the walls were displayed innumerable inscriptions, written in nearly every language of Europe, some in verse, some in prose, most of them not very laudatory of “bella Italia.”
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	displayed	display	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	prose	prose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	nsubj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	laudatory	laudatory	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	bella	bella	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Italia	Italia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **display** | past · passive |  | innumerable inscriptions and some verse and some prose |  | the walls |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: inscription=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | innumerable inscriptions and some verse and some prose *not said here* |  | every language of Europe |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in language=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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