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title: Behind the iron grating a man appears, pale as death, with long unke… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind the iron grating a man appears, pale as death, with long unkempt beard. Who acts: iron. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor, sentence 27

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Behind the iron grating a man appears, pale as death, with long unkempt beard.

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**Who acts:** iron · **What happens:** grate, appear · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Thorny Road of Honor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron), 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:pg27200:190:27
# text = Behind the iron grating a man appears, pale as death, with long unkempt beard.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	grating	grate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	unkempt	unkempt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grate** | gerund | the iron *not said here* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer |
| 2 | **appear** | present | the iron |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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