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title: Umbrellas, sticks, and hats swung in the net before him, and almost… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Umbrellas, sticks, and hats swung in the net before him, and almost obstructed the prospect, which was really very imposing; and as he glanced at it, his memory recalled the words of one poet at least, who has sung of Switzerland, and whose poems have not yet been printed:-- Who acts: Umbrellas, pro
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 14

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Umbrellas, sticks, and hats swung in the net before him, and almost obstructed the prospect, which was really very imposing; and as he glanced at it, his memory recalled the words of one poet at least, who has sung of Switzerland, and whose poems have not yet been printed:--

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**Who acts:** Umbrellas, prospect, head, memory · **What happens:** swing, obstruct, be, glance, recall, sing · **To what, where:** net, prospect, words, least, poems, one poet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Umbrellas, prospect, head, memory), 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:pg27200:45:14
# text = Umbrellas, sticks, and hats swung in the net before him, and almost obstructed the prospect, which was really very imposing; and as he glanced at it, his memory recalled the words of one poet at least, who has sung of Switzerland, and whose poems have not yet been printed:--
1	Umbrellas	umbrella	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swung	swing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	obstructed	obstruct	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	prospect	prospect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	really	really	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	imposing	imposing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	glanced	glance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	recalled	recall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	40	nummod	_	_
40	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
45	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	Switzerland	Switzerland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
51	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
54	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
55	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	aux:pass	_	_
57	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swing** | past | Umbrellas and sticks |  |  | the net | before head |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in net=Trajectory |
| 2 | **obstruct** | past | Umbrellas and sticks *not said here* | the prospect |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer prospect=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | past | the prospect |  |  |  |  | imposing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **glance** | past | head |  |  |  |  | at prospect | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 5 | **recall** | past | head's memory | the words of one poet |  | least |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | of Switzerland | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 7 | **not** **print** | present · perfect · passive |  | poems |  |  | yet |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **word** |  |  | one poet |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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