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title: Here, on the walls, were reflected pictures of the world, which repr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, on the walls, were reflected pictures of the world, which represented numerous and varied scenes of everything that took place daily, so that it was useless to read the newspapers, and indeed there were none to be obtained in this spot. Who acts: reflected pictures, place, none. A sentence of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 13

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Here, on the walls, were reflected pictures of the world, which represented numerous and varied scenes of everything that took place daily, so that it was useless to read the newspapers, and indeed there were none to be obtained in this spot.

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**Who acts:** reflected pictures, place, none · **What happens:** reflect, represent, take, be, read, obtain · **To what, where:** numerous scenes, place, newspapers, spot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reflected pictures, place, none), 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:pg27200:143:13
# text = Here, on the walls, were reflected pictures of the world, which represented numerous and varied scenes of everything that took place daily, so that it was useless to read the newspapers, and indeed there were none to be obtained in this spot.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	represented	represent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	varied	varied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	19	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	31	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	useless	useless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
39	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
40	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
41	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	40	nsubj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
47	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reflect** | past · passive |  |  |  | here |  | on the walls | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: on wall=Topic |
| 2 | **represent** | past | reflected pictures of the world | numerous scenes of everything |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot scene=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past |  | place |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | place |  |  |  |  | useless *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **read** | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | the newspapers |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Topic |
| 6 | **be** | past | none |  |  | there |  | indeed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **obtain** | to-infinitive · passive | none *not said here* |  |  | this spot |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP» |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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