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title: Souls always enter these gates in pairs; so he found himself standin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Souls always enter these gates in pairs; so he found himself standing and waiting for admission with another; and who should it be but old dame Margaret, from the house on the dyke! " Who acts: Souls, widow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snowdrop, sentence 158

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Souls always enter these gates in pairs; so he found himself standing and waiting for admission with another; and who should it be but old dame Margaret, from the house on the dyke! "

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**Who acts:** Souls, widow · **What happens:** enter, find, stand, wait, be · **To what, where:** gates, pairs, widow, old dame

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snowdrop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Souls, widow), 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:pg27200:177:158
# text = Souls always enter these gates in pairs; so he found himself standing and waiting for admission with another; and who should it be but old dame Margaret, from the house on the dyke! "
1	Souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	enter	enter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pairs	pair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	admission	admission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	dame	dame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
29	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	dyke	dyke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | present | Souls | this gates |  | pairs |  | always *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination |
| 2 | **find** | past | widow | widow |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | widow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | widow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for admission with another | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | old dame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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