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title: Now and then, certainly, a door is seen; but it is locked, for what… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now and then, certainly, a door is seen; but it is locked, for what does the Chinaman care about the outer world? A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 3

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Now and then, certainly, a door is seen; but it is locked, for what does the Chinaman care about the outer world?

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**What happens:** see, lock, do · **To what, where:** door, Chinaman care

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:117:3
# text = Now and then, certainly, a door is seen; but it is locked, for what does the Chinaman care about the outer world?
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	19	nsubj	_	_
19	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Chinaman	Chinaman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · passive |  | a door |  |  | now | certainly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lock** | present · passive |  | door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | present |  | the Chinaman care |  |  |  | about the outer world | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Eventuality |

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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:** «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.

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