Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Storm Shakes the Shield, sentence 25

There were many shields to be seen; a hundred rooms might have been filled with pictures, if they had been hung up inside and outside.

Who acts: many shields · What happens: be, see, fill, hang up · To what, where: hundred rooms, rooms

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 (many shields), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shields	amod
4	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 seen	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seen	aux:pass
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shields	acl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 filled	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hundred	det
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 rooms	nummod
11	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 filled	nsubj:pass
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 filled	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 filled	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 filled	aux:pass
15	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 were	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 pictures	case
17	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 filled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hung	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 hung	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hung	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hung	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 hung	aux:pass
23	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 filled	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 hung	compound:prt
25	inside	inside	ADV	_	23 hung	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 outside	cc
27	outside	outside	ADV	_	25 inside	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	many shields		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive · passive	many shields not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
3	fill	might · perfect · passive		hundred rooms		with pictures	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with picture=Instrument
4	hang up a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		rooms = room		inside property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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.

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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