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title: Yes! if anyone had paid particular attention to it, they would have… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yes! if anyone had paid particular attention to it, they would have seen, quite distinctly, that the shadow went in through the half-open balcony-door of their opposite neighbor, just as the stranger went into his own room, and let the long curtain fall down after him. Who acts: doors, shadow, stran
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shadow, sentence 43

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Yes! if anyone had paid particular attention to it, they would have seen, quite distinctly, that the shadow went in through the half-open balcony-door of their opposite neighbor, just as the stranger went into his own room, and let the long curtain fall down after him.

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**Who acts:** doors, shadow, stranger, you, long curtain · **What happens:** pay, see, go in, go, let, fall down · **To what, where:** anyone, attention, open balcony door, own room, long curtain

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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 (doors, shadow, stranger, you), 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:pg1597:23:43
# text = Yes! if anyone had paid particular attention to it, they would have seen, quite distinctly, that the shadow went in through the half-open balcony-door of their opposite neighbor, just as the stranger went into his own room, and let the long curtain fall down after him.
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	49	advcl	_	_
7	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
27	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	just	just	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
39	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	xcomp	_	_
54	down	down	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	after	after	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	49	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | anyone | attention |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient attention=Asset |
| 2 | **see** | would · perfect | doors *= door* |  |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go in** | past | the shadow |  |  | the open balcony door of doors's opposite neighbor |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **go** | past | the stranger |  |  | stranger's own room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | the long curtain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall down** | infinitive | the long curtain *not said here* |  |  |  | after stranger | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «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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