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title: Close wooden shutters covered the windows behind the walls of the ho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Close wooden shutters covered the windows behind the walls of the houses; but through the windows of the temple a faint light glimmered. Who acts: Close wooden shutters, faint light. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-sixth Evening, sentence 4

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Close wooden shutters covered the windows behind the walls of the houses; but through the windows of the temple a faint light glimmered.

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**Who acts:** Close wooden shutters, faint light · **What happens:** cover, glimmer · **To what, where:** windows, walls

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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: who acts (Close wooden shutters, faint light), 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:pg27200:117:4
# text = Close wooden shutters covered the windows behind the walls of the houses; but through the windows of the temple a faint light glimmered.
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	glimmered	glimmer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | Close wooden shutters | the windows |  | the walls of the houses |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Destination |
| 2 | **glimmer** | past | a faint light |  |  | the windows of the temple |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Location |

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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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