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title: They stood in a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages, all… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They stood in a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages, all communicating with each other. Who acts: strangers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 16

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They stood in a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages, all communicating with each other.

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**Who acts:** strangers · **What happens:** stand, arch, communicate · **To what, where:** labyrinth

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, 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 (strangers), 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:pg27200:26:16
# text = They stood in a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages, all communicating with each other.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	arched	arch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	communicating	communicate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	14	obl	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | strangers *= stranger* |  |  | a labyrinth of endless halls and arched passages |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in labyrinth=Location |
| 2 | **arch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **communicate** | gerund | strangers *= stranger* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with each | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with each=Co-Agent |

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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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