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title: Aunt wanted to come out, but the people before her, in their fright… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Aunt wanted to come out, but the people before her, in their fright and heedlessness, slammed the door of the box; and there sat our aunt, and couldn't get out, and couldn't get in; that is to say, she couldn't get into the next box, for the partition was too high for her. Who acts: Aunt, people, th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 85

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Aunt wanted to come out, but the people before her, in their fright and heedlessness, slammed the door of the box; and there sat our aunt, and couldn't get out, and couldn't get in; that is to say, she couldn't get into the next box, for the partition was too high for her.

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**Who acts:** Aunt, people, that, partition · **What happens:** want, come out, slam, sit, not get out, not get in · **To what, where:** door, aunt, next box · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aunt, people, that, partition), 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:pg27200:139:85
# text = Aunt wanted to come out, but the people before her, in their fright and heedlessness, slammed the door of the box; and there sat our aunt, and couldn't get out, and couldn't get in; that is to say, she couldn't get into the next box, for the partition was too high for her.
1	Aunt	Aunt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	heedlessness	heedlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
19	slammed	slam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
39	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
41	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
44	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	nsubj:outer	_	_
45	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	52	advmod	_	_
52	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	ccomp	_	_
53	into	into	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
58	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	63	mark	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	partition	partition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
62	too	too	ADV	RB	_	63	advmod	_	_
63	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	_
64	for	for	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
65	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Aunt |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Aunt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **slam** | past | the people before aunt and people's fright and heedlessness | the door of the box |  |  |  |  | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **sit** | past |  | our aunt |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location aunt=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **get out** | could |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **get in** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **be** *speech: assert* | present | that |  |  |  |  | say *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **get** | could | aunt |  |  | the next box |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into box=Destination |
| 9 | **is** | past | the partition |  |  |  |  | for aunt; high *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **fright** |  | people |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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