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title: There was therefore a narrow opening near the bottom large enough fo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There was therefore a narrow opening near the bottom large enough for him to slip through, which he did very quietly, and got a shelter for the night. Who acts: narrow bottom, bottom. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, with its dependency tre
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Ugly Duckling, sentence 88

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There was therefore a narrow opening near the bottom large enough for him to slip through, which he did very quietly, and got a shelter for the night.

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**Who acts:** narrow bottom, bottom · **What happens:** be, open, slip through, do, get · **To what, where:** shelter

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Ugly Duckling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (narrow bottom, bottom), 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:pg27200:201:88
# text = There was therefore a narrow opening near the bottom large enough for him to slip through, which he did very quietly, and got a shelter for the night.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	nsubj	_	_
7	near	near	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
10	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
16	through	through	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a narrow bottom |  |  | there |  | therefore *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **slip through** | to-infinitive | bottom |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **do** | past | bottom |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 5 | **get** | past |  | a shelter |  |  | night |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shelter=Stimulus |

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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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