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title: Where was the real entrance? for, both in the street and in the lane… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Where was the real entrance? for, both in the street and in the lane at the side, the whole ground floor was a continuation of shops; and people could not always be passing through them. Who acts: whole ground floor, people. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 29

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Where was the real entrance? for, both in the street and in the lane at the side, the whole ground floor was a continuation of shops; and people could not always be passing through them.

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**Who acts:** whole ground floor, people · **What happens:** be, not pass · **To what, where:** real entrance, continuation

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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 (whole ground floor, people), 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:pg27200:165:29
# text = Where was the real entrance? for, both in the street and in the lane at the side, the whole ground floor was a continuation of shops; and people could not always be passing through them.
1	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	continuation	continuation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	shops	shop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	37	advmod	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
38	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the real entrance and a continuation |  |  |  | for the street and the lane at the side | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the whole ground floor | a continuation |  |  |  | of shops | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **pass** | could · progressive | people | the real entrance and a continuation *not said here* |  |  |  | through shops *= shop*; always *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme through they=Destination |

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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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