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title: This chamber looked upon the street, in which hung skins to dry, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: This chamber looked upon the street, in which hung skins to dry, and there were thick iron bars across his window. Who acts: chamber, thick iron bars. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 102

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This chamber looked upon the street, in which hung skins to dry, and there were thick iron bars across his window.

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**Who acts:** chamber, thick iron bars · **What happens:** look, hang, dry, be · **To what, where:** skins

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chamber, thick iron 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:pg27200:89:102
# text = This chamber looked upon the street, in which hung skins to dry, and there were thick iron bars across his window.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | this chamber |  |  |  |  | upon the street | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon street=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past |  | skins |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 3 | **dry** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **be** | past | thick iron bars across chamber's window |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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