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title: The eating-house keeper's bill of fare, which had hung at his door i… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The eating-house keeper's bill of fare, which had hung at his door in a heavy frame, was posted by the storm over the entrance to the theatre, where nobody went. " Who acts: storm, nobody, house keeper. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Sh
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 42

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The eating-house keeper's bill of fare, which had hung at his door in a heavy frame, was posted by the storm over the entrance to the theatre, where nobody went. "

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**Who acts:** storm, nobody, house keeper · **What happens:** hang, post, go, bill · **To what, where:** fare, door, bill, entrance

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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 (storm, nobody, house keeper), 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:pg27200:184:42
# text = The eating-house keeper's bill of fare, which had hung at his door in a heavy frame, was posted by the storm over the entrance to the theatre, where nobody went. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	eating	eating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	posted	post	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	theatre	theatre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	_
36	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · perfect · passive |  | fare |  | man's door |  | in a heavy frame | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at door=Destination |
| 2 | **post** | past · passive | the storm | the house keeper's bill of fare |  | the entrance to the theatre |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bill** |  | the house keeper | fare |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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