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title: Empty are the barns and store-rooms, the cellars and cupboards; the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Empty are the barns and store-rooms, the cellars and cupboards; the servants decreased in number, and the mice multiplied. Who acts: Empty barns, mice. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 98

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Empty are the barns and store-rooms, the cellars and cupboards; the servants decreased in number, and the mice multiplied.

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**Who acts:** Empty barns, mice · **What happens:** be, decrease, multiply · **To what, where:** Empty barns, number

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Empty barns, mice), 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:pg27200:212:98
# text = Empty are the barns and store-rooms, the cellars and cupboards; the servants decreased in number, and the mice multiplied.
1	Empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	barns	barn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cupboards	cupboard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	decreased	decrease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	multiplied	multiply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Empty barns and store rooms |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **decrease** | past | the Empty barns and store rooms |  |  | number |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **multiply** | past | the mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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