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title: The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fellow had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town. Who acts: pretty h
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 15

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The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fellow had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town.

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**Who acts:** pretty high railing, thin fellow, fellow · **What happens:** separate, be, say, have, squeeze, go · **To what, where:** extensive building, seriousness, building, fellow, little visits, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty high railing, thin fellow, fellow), 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:pg1597:7:15
# text = The extensive building is separated from the street by a pretty high railing, the thick iron bars of which are so far apart, that in all seriousness, it is said, some very thin fellow had of a night occasionally squeezed himself through to go and pay his little visits in the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	extensive	extensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	railing	railing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	24	advmod	_	_
24	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	fixed	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	seriousness	seriousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
36	very	very	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
45	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	through	through	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	conj	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | present · passive | a pretty high railing | the extensive building |  |  |  | from the street | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from street=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | all seriousness |  | of the thick iron bars; apart, far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | building |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | some thin fellow |  |  |  | night |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **squeeze** | past | some thin fellow *not said here* | fellow |  |  |  | occasionally, through *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive | some thin fellow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **pay** | infinitive | some thin fellow *not said here* | fellow's little visits |  | the town |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 8 | **visit** |  | fellow |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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