--- title: First they went under the floor, and then passed through a long pass… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: First they went under the floor, and then passed through a long passage, which was scarcely high enough to allow the thimble to drive under, and the whole passage was lit up with the phosphorescent light of rotten wood. Who acts: trouble, long passage. 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C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, long passage), 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:pg27200:134:108 # text = First they went under the floor, and then passed through a long passage, which was scarcely high enough to allow the thimble to drive under, and the whole passage was lit up with the phosphorescent light of rotten wood. 1 First first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 under under ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 10 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 scarcely scarcely ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 20 enough enough ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 allow allow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 thimble thimble NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 under under ADP IN _ 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 passage passage NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 lit lit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 35 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 phosphorescent phosphorescent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 rotten rotten ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | trouble | | | the floor | | first *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under floor=Location | | 2 | **pass** | past | trouble *not said here* | | | a long passage | then | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through passage=Location | | 3 | **is** | past | a long passage | | | | | enough, high, scarcely *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **allow** | to-infinitive | a long passage *not said here* | the thimble | | | | | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thimble=Beneficiary | | 5 | **drive** | to-infinitive | a long passage *not said here* | the thimble *not said here* | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lit up** | past · passive | | the whole passage | | | | with the phosphorescent light of rotten wood | tree rules | | 7 | **light** | | | rotten wood | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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