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title: The first night after he came to the town had been signalized by the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The first night after he came to the town had been signalized by the most terrible gale ever recorded in the newspapers--a gale such as none of the inhabitants had ever before experienced. Who acts: grandpapa, terrible gale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 30

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The first night after he came to the town had been signalized by the most terrible gale ever recorded in the newspapers--a gale such as none of the inhabitants had ever before experienced.

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**Who acts:** grandpapa, terrible gale · **What happens:** come, signalize, record, have · **To what, where:** first night, terrible gale, newspapers

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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 (grandpapa, terrible gale), 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:pg27200:184:30
# text = The first night after he came to the town had been signalized by the most terrible gale ever recorded in the newspapers--a gale such as none of the inhabitants had ever before experienced.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	signalized	signalize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	newspapers	newspaper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	gale	gale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
26	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	34	advmod	_	_
34	before	before	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | grandpapa | the first night *not said here* |  |  |  | to the town | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location night=Theme |
| 2 | **signalize** | past · perfect · passive | the terrible gale and a gale such none | the first night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **record** | participle |  | the terrible gale and a gale such none *not said here* |  | the newspapers | ever |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in newspaper=Destination |
| 4 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | experienced *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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