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title: There was no light; there was a sort of twilight, but the one door s… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no light; there was a sort of twilight, but the one door stood open directly opposite the other through a long row of rooms and saloons, and there it was lighted up. Who acts: light, sort, one door. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency t
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 112

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There was no light; there was a sort of twilight, but the one door stood open directly opposite the other through a long row of rooms and saloons, and there it was lighted up.

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**Who acts:** light, sort, one door · **What happens:** be, stand, light up, sort · **To what, where:** long row, sort, twilight

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, sort, one door), 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:pg1597:23:112
# text = There was no light; there was a sort of twilight, but the one door stood open directly opposite the other through a long row of rooms and saloons, and there it was lighted up.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
19	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	opposite	opposite	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	saloons	saloon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
37	up	up	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no light |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | a sort of twilight |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | the one door |  |  | a long row of rooms and saloons |  | opposite the other; directly, open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite other=Location |
| 4 | **light up** | past · passive |  | sort |  | there |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 5 | **sort** |  |  | twilight |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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:** «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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