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title: The great church door flew open wide, and as they walked up the broa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The great church door flew open wide, and as they walked up the broad aisle, soft tones of music sounded from the organ. " Who acts: great church door, tree, soft tones. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 32

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The great church door flew open wide, and as they walked up the broad aisle, soft tones of music sounded from the organ. "

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**Who acts:** great church door, tree, soft tones · **What happens:** fly, walk up, sound, intonate · **To what, where:** broad aisle, organ, music

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great church door, tree, soft tones), 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:pg27200:204:32
# text = The great church door flew open wide, and as they walked up the broad aisle, soft tones of music sounded from the organ. "
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	aisle	aisle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the great church door |  |  |  |  | open, wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **walk up** | past | tree | the broad aisle |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | past | soft tones of music |  |  | the organ |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | music |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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