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title: The barber's shield, the great brazen dish, was carried away, and hu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The barber's shield, the great brazen dish, was carried away, and hurled straight into the embrasure of the councillor of justice; and the whole neighborhood said this looked almost like malice, inasmuch as they, and nearly all the friends of the councillor's wife, used to call that lady "the Razor"
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 37

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The barber's shield, the great brazen dish, was carried away, and hurled straight into the embrasure of the councillor of justice; and the whole neighborhood said this looked almost like malice, inasmuch as they, and nearly all the friends of the councillor's wife, used to call that lady "the Razor" for she was so sharp that she knew more about other people's business than they knew about it themselves.

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**Who acts:** whole neighborhood, this, neighborhood, malice · **What happens:** carry away, hurl, say, look, use, call · **To what, where:** shield, embrasure, malice, lady, more · **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 (whole neighborhood, this, neighborhood, malice), 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:pg27200:184:37
# text = The barber's shield, the great brazen dish, was carried away, and hurled straight into the embrasure of the councillor of justice; and the whole neighborhood said this looked almost like malice, inasmuch as they, and nearly all the friends of the councillor's wife, used to call that lady "the Razor" for she was so sharp that she knew more about other people's business than they knew about it themselves.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barber	barber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	embrasure	embrasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	councillor	councillor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
33	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
34	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	like	like	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	malice	malice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	inasmuch	inasmuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
43	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	46	det:predet	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	councillor	councillor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	's	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	57	det	_	_
57	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	60	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	Razor	Razor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	60	punct	_	_
62	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	66	mark	_	_
63	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	66	nsubj	_	_
64	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	cop	_	_
65	so	so	ADV	RB	_	66	advmod	_	_
66	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	advcl	_	_
67	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	69	mark	_	_
68	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	69	nsubj	_	_
69	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	66	advcl	_	_
70	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	69	obj	_	_
71	about	about	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
72	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	73	amod	_	_
73	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	75	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
74	's	's	PART	POS	_	73	case	_	_
75	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	obl	_	_
76	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	78	mark	_	_
77	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	_
78	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	69	advcl	_	_
79	about	about	ADP	IN	_	80	case	_	_
80	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	78	obl	_	_
81	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	78	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry away** | past · passive |  | the barber's shield and the great brazen dish |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hurl** | participle |  | the embrasure of the councillor of justice |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embrasure=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the whole neighborhood |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | past | this | malice and inasmuch |  |  |  | as malice | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme malice=Attribute |
| 5 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **call** | to-infinitive |  |  | that lady |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient |
| 7 | **is** | past | neighborhood |  |  |  |  | sharp *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **know** | past | neighborhood | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 9 | **know** | past | malice | malice |  |  |  | about shield | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus |

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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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