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title: The thick oaken door was locked, and secured on the outside by an ir… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The thick oaken door was locked, and secured on the outside by an iron bar; but the goblin of superstition can creep through a keyhole into a baron's castle just as easily as it can into a fisherman's cottage, and why should he not creep in here, where Jurgen sat thinking of Long Martha and her wick
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 35

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The thick oaken door was locked, and secured on the outside by an iron bar; but the goblin of superstition can creep through a keyhole into a baron's castle just as easily as it can into a fisherman's cottage, and why should he not creep in here, where Jurgen sat thinking of Long Martha and her wicked deeds?

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**Who acts:** goblin, Jurgen · **What happens:** lock, secure, creep, not creep, sit, think · **To what, where:** thick oaken door, outside, keyhole

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goblin, Jurgen), 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:pg27200:161:35
# text = The thick oaken door was locked, and secured on the outside by an iron bar; but the goblin of superstition can creep through a keyhole into a baron's castle just as easily as it can into a fisherman's cottage, and why should he not creep in here, where Jurgen sat thinking of Long Martha and her wicked deeds?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	oaken	oaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	secured	secure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	outside	outside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	goblin	goblin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	superstition	superstition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	baron	baron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
46	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	50	advmod	_	_
47	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	creep	creep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
55	Jurgen	Jurgen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
57	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	56	xcomp	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Long	Long	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	57	obl	_	_
60	Martha	Martha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	flat	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
63	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock** | past · passive |  | the thick oaken door |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **secure** | participle |  |  |  | the outside |  | by a iron bar | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on outside=Source |
| 3 | **creep** | can | the goblin of superstition |  |  | a keyhole |  | into a baron's castle; into a fisherman's cottage; easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into castle=Destination |
| 4 | **not** **creep** | should | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in here=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sit** | past | Jurgen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Jurgen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Long and staircase's wicked deeds | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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