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title: A shield with a dried salt fish painted on it flew exactly in front… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A shield with a dried salt fish painted on it flew exactly in front of the door of a house where dwelt a man who wrote a newspaper. Who acts: shield, man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 38

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A shield with a dried salt fish painted on it flew exactly in front of the door of a house where dwelt a man who wrote a newspaper.

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**Who acts:** shield, man · **What happens:** dry, paint, fly, dwell, write · **To what, where:** dried salt fish, shield, front, man, newspaper

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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 (shield, man), 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:pg27200:184:38
# text = A shield with a dried salt fish painted on it flew exactly in front of the door of a house where dwelt a man who wrote a newspaper.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	22	advmod	_	_
22	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	newspaper	newspaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | a dried salt fish *not said here* |  | shield |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
| 3 | **fly** | past | a shield with a dried salt fish |  |  | front of the door of a house |  | exactly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 4 | **dwell** | participle |  | a man |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location |
| 5 | **write** | past | a man | a newspaper |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent newspaper=Theme |

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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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