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title: And not only to the ear of superstition is the sighing and the tread… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And not only to the ear of superstition is the sighing and the tread of hurrying feet audible in the long echoing passages leading to the convent door that has long been locked. Who acts: superstition, tread, long echoing passages. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Ande
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 117

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And not only to the ear of superstition is the sighing and the tread of hurrying feet audible in the long echoing passages leading to the convent door that has long been locked.

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**Who acts:** superstition, tread, long echoing passages · **What happens:** be, hurry, lead, lock · **To what, where:** feet, convent door

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (superstition, tread, long echoing passages), 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:pg27200:12:117
# text = And not only to the ear of superstition is the sighing and the tread of hurrying feet audible in the long echoing passages leading to the convent door that has long been locked.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sighing	sighing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hurrying	hurry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	audible	audible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	echoing	echoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
30	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
32	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | superstition |  |  |  |  | of the sighing and the tread | tree rules |
| 2 | **hurry** | gerund | the tread *not said here* | feet |  |  |  | audible *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Agent |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | the long echoing passages *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the convent door | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to door=Patient |
| 4 | **lock** | present · perfect · passive |  | the convent door |  |  |  | long *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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