--- title: The doors were fastened with a loop of string; the floor of the room… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The doors were fastened with a loop of string; the floor of the rooms presented a stone paving half torn up; bats fluttered wildly about the ceiling; and as to the smell therein--no--that was beyond description. Who acts: floor, stone, bats, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, stone, bats, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg1597:9:93 # text = The doors were fastened with a loop of string; the floor of the rooms presented a stone paving half torn up; bats fluttered wildly about the ceiling; and as to the smell therein--no--that was beyond description. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 doors door NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 loop loop NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 presented present VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 paving pave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 19 obj _ _ 21 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 bats bat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fluttered flutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 about about ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ceiling ceiling NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 35 case _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 36 therein therein ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 no no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 43 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 39 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 description description NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fasten** | past · passive | | the doors | | | | with a loop of string | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with loop=Co-Patient | | 2 | **present** | past | the floor of the rooms | a stone | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | | 3 | **pave** | gerund | a stone *not said here* | half | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme half=Destination | | 4 | **tear up** | participle | | half *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **flutter** | past | bats | | | | | about the ceiling; wildly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about ceiling=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | that | | | | | beyond description | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/92/) - next →: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/94/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/)