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title: The whole of the ground-floor was a row of shops, and there people c… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The whole of the ground-floor was a row of shops, and there people could not always be running through. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 28

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The whole of the ground-floor was a row of shops, and there people could not always be running through.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be, not run through · **To what, where:** whole row

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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 (people), 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:pg1597:23:28
# text = The whole of the ground-floor was a row of shops, and there people could not always be running through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
22	through	through	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a whole row |  |  |  | of shops | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **run through** | could · progressive | people |  |  |  |  | always, through *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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