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title: On the walls hung pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the walls hung pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in gorgeous dresses; the most stately of all walked about alive. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 4

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On the walls hung pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in gorgeous dresses; the most stately of all walked about alive.

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**What happens:** hang, walk · **To what, where:** pictures, walls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:22:4
# text = On the walls hung pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in gorgeous dresses; the most stately of all walked about alive.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	pictures	picture	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	advmod	_	_
22	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past |  | pictures of knights in armour and proud ladies in gorgeous dresses |  | the walls |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent picture=Theme on wall=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past |  |  |  |  |  | alive, stately *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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