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title: There was a full band of music, and the most splendid of all the ins… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was a full band of music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the "bird," as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent on the top, and all manner of dingle-dangles hanging to it--a perfect Turkish clatter of music. Who acts: full band, big stick, dingle dangles, music. A 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 6

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There was a full band of music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the "bird," as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent on the top, and all manner of dingle-dangles hanging to it--a perfect Turkish clatter of music.

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**Who acts:** full band, big stick, dingle dangles, music · **What happens:** be, call, hang, clatter · **To what, where:** splendid bird, grandfather, band · **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 (full band, big stick, dingle dangles, music), 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:pg27200:184:6
# text = There was a full band of music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the "bird," as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent on the top, and all manner of dingle-dangles hanging to it--a perfect Turkish clatter of music.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
25	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	crescent	crescent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	dingle	dingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	dangles	dangle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod	_	_
43	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	Turkish	Turkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a full band of music |  |  | there |  | as grandfather | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past |  | the splendid bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **call** | participle | the big stick | grandfather *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grandfather=Recipient |
| 4 | **hang** | gerund | dingle dangles *not said here* |  | band |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **clatter** |  | music |  |  |  |  |  | nom clatter «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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