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title: Upon this there was a great uproar; even the engravings, which hung… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this there was a great uproar; even the engravings, which hung in frames on the wall, turned round in their excitement, and showed that they had a wrong side to them, although they had not the least intention to expose themselves in this way, or to object to the game. Who acts: this, engravings
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 10

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Upon this there was a great uproar; even the engravings, which hung in frames on the wall, turned round in their excitement, and showed that they had a wrong side to them, although they had not the least intention to expose themselves in this way, or to object to the game.

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**Who acts:** this, engravings, frames · **What happens:** be, hang, turn round, show, have, expose · **To what, where:** frames, wall, excitement, wrong side, least intention, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, engravings, frames), 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:pg27200:90:10
# text = Upon this there was a great uproar; even the engravings, which hung in frames on the wall, turned round in their excitement, and showed that they had a wrong side to them, although they had not the least intention to expose themselves in this way, or to object to the game.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	engravings	engraving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	frames	frame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	44	amod	_	_
44	intention	intention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	expose	expose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
47	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
50	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
55	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | upon a great uproar | tree rules |
| 2 | **hang** | past | the engravings |  |  | frames |  | on the wall | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in frame=Location |
| 3 | **turn round** | participle |  | the wall *not said here* |  | frames's excitement |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in excitement=Trajectory |
| 4 | **show** | past | the engravings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **have** | past | frames *= frame* | a wrong side |  |  |  | to engravings *= engraving* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | past | frames *= frame* | the least intention |  |  |  | object to the game *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient |
| 7 | **expose** | to-infinitive | frames *= frame* *not said here* | frames *= frame* |  | this way |  |  | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Topic |
| 8 | **excite** |  | frames *= frame* |  |  |  |  |  | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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