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title: On entering the first of the chambers, to which these doors lead, yo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On entering the first of the chambers, to which these doors lead, you will see a large chest, standing in the middle of the floor, and upon it a dog seated, with a pair of eyes as large as teacups. Who acts: doors, you. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ti
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Tinder-box, sentence 11

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On entering the first of the chambers, to which these doors lead, you will see a large chest, standing in the middle of the floor, and upon it a dog seated, with a pair of eyes as large as teacups.

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**Who acts:** doors, you · **What happens:** enter, lead, see, stand, seat · **To what, where:** first, large chest, middle, chest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doors, you), 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:pg27200:193:11
# text = On entering the first of the chambers, to which these doors lead, you will see a large chest, standing in the middle of the floor, and upon it a dog seated, with a pair of eyes as large as teacups.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lead	lead	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
42	as	as	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	teacups	teacup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | this doors *not said here* | the first of the chambers |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme first=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | present | this doors |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to which=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | future | you | a large chest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chest=Stimulus |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the floor |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 5 | **seat** | participle · passive |  | chest |  |  |  | with a pair of eyes | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |

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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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