--- title: Instinctively, the clerk obeyed, and left the cage; at the same mome… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Instinctively, the clerk obeyed, and left the cage; at the same moment the half-opened door leading into the next room creaked on its hinges, and, stealthily, with green fiery eyes, the cat crept in and chased the lark round the room. Who acts: clerk, opened door, cat. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/143/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/) / 143 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 143 Instinctively, the clerk obeyed, and left the cage; at the same moment the half-opened door leading into the next room creaked on its hinges, and, stealthily, with green fiery eyes, the cat crept in and chased the lark round the room. **Who acts:** clerk, opened door, cat · **What happens:** obey, leave, open, lead, creak, creep in · **To what, where:** cage, next room, hinges, lark, room This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clerk, opened door, cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:44:143 # text = Instinctively, the clerk obeyed, and left the cage; at the same moment the half-opened door leading into the next room creaked on its hinges, and, stealthily, with green fiery eyes, the cat crept in and chased the lark round the room. 1 Instinctively instinctively ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 clerk clerk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 obeyed obey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cage cage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 20 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 21 leading lead VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 creaked creak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hinges hinge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 stealthily stealthily ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 fiery fiery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 parataxis _ _ 43 in in ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 chased chase VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 lark lark NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 round round ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obey** | past | the clerk | | | | moment | instinctively *property* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **leave** | past | the clerk *not said here* | the cage | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | | 3 | **open** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lead** | gerund | the opened door and green fiery eyes *not said here* | | | the next room | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into room=Destination | | 5 | **creak** | participle | | the next room *not said here* | | cage's hinges | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hinge=Location | | 6 | **creep in** | past | the cat | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **chase** | past | the cat *not said here* | the lark | | the room | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lark=Theme round room=Trajectory | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/142/) - next →: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/144/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)