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title: There was often a good deal of show in the streets--show that we don… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was often a good deal of show in the streets--show that we don't see nowadays, because it has been abolished as too old-fashioned. Who acts: good deal, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 2

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There was often a good deal of show in the streets--show that we don't see nowadays, because it has been abolished as too old-fashioned.

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**Who acts:** good deal, we · **What happens:** be, show, not see, abolish, deal · **To what, where:** deal, show · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (good deal, we), 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:pg27200:184:2
# text = There was often a good deal of show in the streets--show that we don't see nowadays, because it has been abolished as too old-fashioned.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	show	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
19	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	too	too	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a good deal of show in the streets |  |  | there |  | often *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **show** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **see** | present · do-support | we |  |  |  |  | nowadays *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **abolish** | present · perfect · passive |  | deal |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **deal** |  |  | show in the streets |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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