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title: The doors leading to the balcony were half opened in the evening; an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The doors leading to the balcony were half opened in the evening; and although in the front room all was dark, music could be heard from the interior of the house. Who acts: doors, all. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 17

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The doors leading to the balcony were half opened in the evening; and although in the front room all was dark, music could be heard from the interior of the house.

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**Who acts:** doors, all · **What happens:** lead, open, be, hear · **To what, where:** doors, front room, music, interior

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, all), 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:pg27200:165:17
# text = The doors leading to the balcony were half opened in the evening; and although in the front room all was dark, music could be heard from the interior of the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	half	half	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	9	advmod	_	_
9	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	interior	interior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund | the doors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the balcony | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to balcony=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | past · passive |  | the doors |  |  | evening | half *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | all |  |  | the front room |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | could · passive |  | music |  | the interior of the house |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from interior=Source |

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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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