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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 3

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He, and all sensible folks, were obliged to stay within doors--the window-shutters and doors were closed the whole day; it looked as if the whole house slept, or there was no one at home.

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**Who acts:** it, whole house, one · **What happens:** oblige, stay, close, look, sleep, be · **To what, where:** man, window shutters

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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 (it, whole house, one), 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:pg1597:23:3
# text = He, and all sensible folks, were obliged to stay within doors--the window-shutters and doors were closed the whole day; it looked as if the whole house slept, or there was no one at home.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	38	expl	_	_
38	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
39	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	40	det	_	_
40	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | within doors and the window shutters and doors | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | past · passive |  | the window shutters and doors *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 4 | **look** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sleep** | past | the whole house |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | past | no one at home |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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