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title: He slept with the door open which led to the balcony; the wind had r… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He slept with the door open which led to the balcony; the wind had raised the curtain before it, and there appeared a wonderful brightness over all in the balcony of the opposite house. Who acts: music. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shadow, with its de
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 22

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He slept with the door open which led to the balcony; the wind had raised the curtain before it, and there appeared a wonderful brightness over all in the balcony of the opposite house.

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**Who acts:** music · **What happens:** sleep, lead, raise, appear · **To what, where:** wind, wonderful brightness, balcony

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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 (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:pg27200:165:22
# text = He slept with the door open which led to the balcony; the wind had raised the curtain before it, and there appeared a wonderful brightness over all in the balcony of the opposite house.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	before	before	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
24	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | music |  |  |  |  | with the door; open *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lead** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the balcony | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to balcony=Patient |
| 3 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  |  | before curtain |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme curtain=Destination |
| 4 | **appear** | past | music *not said here* | a wonderful brightness |  | the balcony of the opposite house; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brightness=Theme |

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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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