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title: It was a terrible night, and in the morning--only think!--nearly all… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a terrible night, and in the morning--only think!--nearly all the shields had changed places. Who acts: storm, shields. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 49

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It was a terrible night, and in the morning--only think!--nearly all the shields had changed places.

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**Who acts:** storm, shields · **What happens:** be, think, change · **To what, where:** terrible night, places · **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 (storm, shields), 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:pg27200:184:49
# text = It was a terrible night, and in the morning--only think!--nearly all the shields had changed places.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
22	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | storm | a terrible night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | storm *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | past · perfect | all shields | places |  |  |  | nearly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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