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title: The gates flew open, and all the dead people from the churchyard cam… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The gates flew open, and all the dead people from the churchyard came in, and filled the church, while beautiful music sounded. Who acts: gates, dead people, beautiful music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 6

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The gates flew open, and all the dead people from the churchyard came in, and filled the church, while beautiful music sounded.

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**Who acts:** gates, dead people, beautiful music · **What happens:** fly, come in, fill, sound · **To what, where:** church

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gates, dead people, beautiful music), 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:pg27200:163:6
# text = The gates flew open, and all the dead people from the churchyard came in, and filled the church, while beautiful music sounded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the gates |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come in** | past | all dead people from the churchyard |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the gates *not said here* | the church |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent church=Patient |
| 4 | **sound** | past | beautiful music |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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