---
title: The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them. Who acts: doors, others, whitethorn bushes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, with its de
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/2/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Thirteenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/) / 2

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirteenth Evening, sentence 2

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** doors, others, whitethorn bushes · **What happens:** be, place, close, grow · **To what, where:** some, ground

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, others, whitethorn bushes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:104:2
# text = The doors are low, and some of the windows are placed quite high, and others close to the ground; and whitethorn and barberry bushes grow around them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	close	close	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	whitethorn	whitethorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	barberry	barberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
29	around	around	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the doors |  |  |  |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **place** | present · passive |  | some |  |  |  | high *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **close** | present | others |  | the ground |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ground=Recipient |
| 4 | **grow** | present | whitethorn bushes |  |  |  |  | around others *= other* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Location |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/1/)
- next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/3/)
- ↑ back to [Thirteenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/104/)