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title: The space between is dark and narrow, but still more dismal must it… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The space between is dark and narrow, but still more dismal must it be behind the iron gratings in the wall which cover the narrow loopholes or windows, for in these dungeons the most depraved of the criminals are confined. Who acts: space, iron gratings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive, sentence 6

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The space between is dark and narrow, but still more dismal must it be behind the iron gratings in the wall which cover the narrow loopholes or windows, for in these dungeons the most depraved of the criminals are confined.

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**Who acts:** space, iron gratings · **What happens:** be, cover, deprave, confine · **To what, where:** iron gratings, narrow loopholes, dungeons

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Sunbeam and the Captive. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (space, iron gratings), 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:pg27200:186:6
# text = The space between is dark and narrow, but still more dismal must it be behind the iron gratings in the wall which cover the narrow loopholes or windows, for in these dungeons the most depraved of the criminals are confined.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	advcl	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	iron	iron	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gratings	grating	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cover	cover	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	loopholes	loophole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	dungeons	dungeon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	37	advmod	_	_
37	depraved	deprave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	criminals	criminal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux:pass	_	_
42	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the space |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the space *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | space |  |  | the iron gratings |  | in the wall | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | present | the iron gratings | the narrow loopholes or windows and this dungeons |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme loophole=Destination |
| 5 | **deprave** | participle |  | this dungeons *not said here* |  |  |  | of the criminals | tree rules |
| 6 | **confine** | must · passive |  | the iron gratings |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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