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title: Then the foreigner stood up, and the shadow on the opposite balcony… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the foreigner stood up, and the shadow on the opposite balcony stood up also; the foreigner turned round, the shadow turned; and if any one had observed, they might have seen it go straight into the half-opened door of the opposite balcony, as the learned man re-entered his own room, and let th
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shadow, sentence 37

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Then the foreigner stood up, and the shadow on the opposite balcony stood up also; the foreigner turned round, the shadow turned; and if any one had observed, they might have seen it go straight into the half-opened door of the opposite balcony, as the learned man re-entered his own room, and let the curtain fall.

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**Who acts:** foreigner, shadow, lights, learned man, curtain · **What happens:** stand up, turn round, turn, observe, see, go · **To what, where:** one, opened door, own room, curtain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (foreigner, shadow, lights, learned man), 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:pg27200:165:37
# text = Then the foreigner stood up, and the shadow on the opposite balcony stood up also; the foreigner turned round, the shadow turned; and if any one had observed, they might have seen it go straight into the half-opened door of the opposite balcony, as the learned man re-entered his own room, and let the curtain fall.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	foreigner	foreigner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	round	round	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux	_	_
37	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	ccomp	_	_
40	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
41	into	into	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	amod	_	_
46	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	balcony	balcony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
52	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	55	amod	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	re-entered	re-enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	56	conj	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	62	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | the foreigner |  |  |  | then |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stand up** | past | the shadow on the opposite balcony |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn round** | past | the foreigner |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the shadow |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **observe** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | any one |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 6 | **see** | might · perfect | lights *= light* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **go** | present | shadow |  |  | the opened door of the opposite balcony |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into door=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **open** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **learn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **re-enter** | past | the learned man | man's own room |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **let** | infinitive | the learned man *not said here* | the curtain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 12 | **fall** | infinitive | the curtain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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