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title: There were many shields to be seen; a hundred rooms might have been… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There were many shields to be seen; a hundred rooms might have been filled with pictures, if they had been hung up inside and outside. Who acts: many shields. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 25

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There were many shields to be seen; a hundred rooms might have been filled with pictures, if they had been hung up inside and outside.

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**Who acts:** many shields · **What happens:** be, see, fill, hang up · **To what, where:** hundred rooms, rooms

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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 (many shields), 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:pg27200:184:25
# text = There were many shields to be seen; a hundred rooms might have been filled with pictures, if they had been hung up inside and outside.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 | many shields |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | many shields *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **fill** | might · perfect · passive |  | hundred rooms |  |  |  | with pictures | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with picture=Instrument |
| 4 | **hang up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | rooms *= room* |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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