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title: It must really have been a gorgeous sight to behold, in those days,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It must really have been a gorgeous sight to behold, in those days, when the shoemaker brought over the shield, when the court-house was changed. Who acts: deal, shoemaker. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 4

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It must really have been a gorgeous sight to behold, in those days, when the shoemaker brought over the shield, when the court-house was changed.

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**Who acts:** deal, shoemaker · **What happens:** be, bring, change · **To what, where:** gorgeous sight, shield, court house

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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 (deal, shoemaker), 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:pg27200:184:4
# text = It must really have been a gorgeous sight to behold, in those days, when the shoemaker brought over the shield, when the court-house was changed.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	30	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must · perfect | deal | a gorgeous sight and that days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past | the shoemaker |  |  | the shield |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **change** | past · passive |  | the court house |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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