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title: Gently, and with much trouble, she pushed back the bar, as silently… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Gently, and with much trouble, she pushed back the bar, as silently lifted the latch, and then took up the glimmering lamp which stood in the ante-chamber of the hall. Who acts: Helga, glimmering lamp. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughte
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 88

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Gently, and with much trouble, she pushed back the bar, as silently lifted the latch, and then took up the glimmering lamp which stood in the ante-chamber of the hall.

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**Who acts:** Helga, glimmering lamp · **What happens:** push back, lift, take up, stand · **To what, where:** bar, latch, glimmering lamp, ante chamber

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (Helga, glimmering lamp), 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:pg27200:85:88
# text = Gently, and with much trouble, she pushed back the bar, as silently lifted the latch, and then took up the glimmering lamp which stood in the ante-chamber of the hall.
1	Gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	latch	latch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	glimmering	glimmering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	ante	ante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **push back** | past | Helga | the bar |  |  |  | with much trouble; gently *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme |
| 2 | **lift** | past | Helga *not said here* | the latch |  |  |  | silently *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latch=Theme |
| 3 | **take up** | past | Helga *not said here* | the glimmering lamp |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamp=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the glimmering lamp |  |  | the ante chamber of the hall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chamber=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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