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title: The floor was too open--the pewter soldier had fallen through a crev… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The floor was too open--the pewter soldier had fallen through a crevice, and there he lay as in an open tomb. Who acts: floor, pewter soldier, man. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House, sentence 96

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The floor was too open--the pewter soldier had fallen through a crevice, and there he lay as in an open tomb.

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**Who acts:** floor, pewter soldier, man · **What happens:** be, fall, lie · **To what, where:** crevice

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, pewter soldier, man), 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:pg1597:19:96
# text = The floor was too open--the pewter soldier had fallen through a crevice, and there he lay as in an open tomb.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	pewter	pewter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the floor |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past · perfect | the pewter soldier |  |  | a crevice |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through crevice=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | man |  |  | there |  | as a open tomb | vn assuming\_position-50 «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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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