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title: Here were three or four packs of cards not quite complete, and a dol… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Here were three or four packs of cards not quite complete, and a doll's theatre, which had been built up very neatly. Who acts: three packs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 34

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Here were three or four packs of cards not quite complete, and a doll's theatre, which had been built up very neatly.

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**Who acts:** three packs · **What happens:** be, build up · **To what, where:** theatre

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three packs), 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:pg27200:166:34
# text = Here were three or four packs of cards not quite complete, and a doll's theatre, which had been built up very neatly.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	doll	doll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | three packs of cards |  |  |  |  | here *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build up** | past · perfect · passive |  | a doll's theatre |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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:** «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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