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title: At the tailor's were pictures of all kinds of clothing, to show that… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: At the tailor's were pictures of all kinds of clothing, to show that he could stitch up people from the coarsest to the finest; at the tobacco manufacturer's were pictures of the most charming little boys, smoking cigars, just as they do in reality; there were signs with painted butter, and herring,
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 26

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At the tailor's were pictures of all kinds of clothing, to show that he could stitch up people from the coarsest to the finest; at the tobacco manufacturer's were pictures of the most charming little boys, smoking cigars, just as they do in reality; there were signs with painted butter, and herring, clerical collars, and coffins, and inscriptions and announcements into the bargain.

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**Who acts:** tailor, people, signs · **What happens:** be, show, stitch up, smoke, do, paint · **To what, where:** pictures, people, cigars, reality · **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 (tailor, people, signs), 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:pg27200:184:26
# text = At the tailor's were pictures of all kinds of clothing, to show that he could stitch up people from the coarsest to the finest; at the tobacco manufacturer's were pictures of the most charming little boys, smoking cigars, just as they do in reality; there were signs with painted butter, and herring, clerical collars, and coffins, and inscriptions and announcements into the bargain.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	clothing	clothing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stitch	stitch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	coarsest	coarse	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	manufacturer	manufacturer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	38	advmod	_	_
38	charming	charming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	ccomp	_	_
43	cigars	cigar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	just	just	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	parataxis	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	53	expl	_	_
53	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
54	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	57	amod	_	_
57	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
62	clerical	clerical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	collars	collar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	66	punct	_	_
65	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	coffins	coffin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	69	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	69	cc	_	_
69	inscriptions	inscription	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	60	conj	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	71	cc	_	_
71	announcements	announcement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	69	conj	_	_
72	into	into	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	74	det	_	_
74	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	69	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the tailor's pictures |  | of all kinds of clothing | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stitch up** | could | tailor | people |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the tobacco manufacturer's pictures |  | of the charming little boys | tree rules |
| 5 | **smoke** | gerund |  | cigars |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cigar=Source |
| 6 | **do** | present | people |  |  | reality |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **be** | past | signs with painted butter |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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