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title: Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he approach. Who acts: roof loopholes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting, sentence 2

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Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he approach.

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**Who acts:** roof loopholes · **What happens:** be, shoot through, pour down, boil, approach · **To what, where:** roof loopholes, boiling water

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Delaying Is Not Forgetting. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof loopholes), 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:pg27200:22:2
# text = Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he approach.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	loopholes	loophole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	shoot	shoot	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	boiling	boil	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	molten	molten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lead	lead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	approach	approach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | roof loopholes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shoot through** | to-infinitive | roof loopholes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pour down** | to-infinitive | roof loopholes *not said here* | boiling water or molten lead on the enemy |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **boil** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **approach** | should | roof loopholes |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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