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title: The doors were fastened together with string; the floors of the room… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The doors were fastened together with string; the floors of the rooms were of brick, broken in many places; bats flew about under the roof; and as to the odor within-- Who acts: floors, bats. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, w
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 40

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The doors were fastened together with string; the floors of the rooms were of brick, broken in many places; bats flew about under the roof; and as to the odor within--

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**Who acts:** floors, bats · **What happens:** fasten, be, break, fly · **To what, where:** doors, brick, many places

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floors, bats), 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:pg27200:45:40
# text = The doors were fastened together with string; the floors of the rooms were of brick, broken in many places; bats flew about under the roof; and as to the odor within--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	floors	floor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rooms	room	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	under	under	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	34	case	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	odor	odor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
35	within	within	ADP	IN	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fasten** | past · passive |  | the doors |  |  |  | with string; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with string=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | the floors of the rooms |  |  |  |  | of brick | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  | brick *not said here* |  | many places |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
| 4 | **fly** | past | bats |  |  |  |  | about the roof | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about roof=Location |

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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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