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title: Such a scene was really very pleasant; and the shield on the new cou… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Such a scene was really very pleasant; and the shield on the new court-house was hung with flowers and green wreaths. Who acts: scene. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 19

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Such a scene was really very pleasant; and the shield on the new court-house was hung with flowers and green wreaths.

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**Who acts:** scene · **What happens:** be, hang · **To what, where:** shield

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scene), 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:pg27200:184:19
# text = Such a scene was really very pleasant; and the shield on the new court-house was hung with flowers and green wreaths.
1	Such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	3	det:predet	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | such scene |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | past · passive |  | the shield on the new court house |  |  |  | with flowers and green wreaths | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with flower=Instrument |

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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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