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title: Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls. Who acts: valuable oil paintings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 54

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Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls.

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**Who acts:** valuable oil paintings · **What happens:** hang · **To what, where:** hall

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valuable oil paintings), 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:pg27200:155:54
# text = Inside, in the hall, valuable oil paintings were hanging on the walls.
1	Inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · progressive | valuable oil paintings |  |  | the hall |  | on the walls; inside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location |

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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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