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title: The hospital is separated from the street by an iron railing, in whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The hospital is separated from the street by an iron railing, in which the bars stand so wide apart that, it is said, some very slim patients have squeezed through, and gone to pay little visits in the town. Who acts: iron railing, bars. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey, sentence 2

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The hospital is separated from the street by an iron railing, in which the bars stand so wide apart that, it is said, some very slim patients have squeezed through, and gone to pay little visits in the town.

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**Who acts:** iron railing, bars · **What happens:** separate, stand, say, squeeze, go, pay · **To what, where:** hospital, that, tale, slim patients, little visits, town · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Eventful Moment--a Most Unusual Journey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron railing, bars), 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:pg27200:43:2
# text = The hospital is separated from the street by an iron railing, in which the bars stand so wide apart that, it is said, some very slim patients have squeezed through, and gone to pay little visits in the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	railing	railing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	slim	slim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	patients	patient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
33	through	through	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	visits	visit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | present · passive | a iron railing | the hospital |  |  |  | from the street | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from street=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **stand** | present | the bars | that |  |  |  | apart, wide *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme in which=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | tale |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 4 | **squeeze** | present · perfect · passive |  | some slim patients |  |  |  | through *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | little visits |  | the town |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |

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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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