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title: The gate stood open, lights were burning upon the altar, and the org… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The gate stood open, lights were burning upon the altar, and the organ sounded. Who acts: gate, lights, organ. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 4, sentence 3

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The gate stood open, lights were burning upon the altar, and the organ sounded.

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**Who acts:** gate, lights, organ · **What happens:** stand, burn, sound · **To what, where:** altar

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, lights, organ), 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:pg27200:27:3
# text = The gate stood open, lights were burning upon the altar, and the organ sounded.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the gate |  |  |  |  | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **burn** | past · progressive | lights |  |  | the altar |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon altar=Location |
| 3 | **sound** | past | the organ |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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