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title: A great iron-bound door stood ajar; he passed through, and climbed u… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: A great iron-bound door stood ajar; he passed through, and climbed up a brick staircase, with dirty walls and a rope for a balustrade, till he came to an open gallery hung with rags. Who acts: great bound door, boy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 60

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A great iron-bound door stood ajar; he passed through, and climbed up a brick staircase, with dirty walls and a rope for a balustrade, till he came to an open gallery hung with rags.

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**Who acts:** great bound door, boy · **What happens:** stand, pass through, climb up, come, hang · **To what, where:** brick staircase, open gallery

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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 (great bound door, boy), 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:pg27200:89:60
# text = A great iron-bound door stood ajar; he passed through, and climbed up a brick staircase, with dirty walls and a rope for a balustrade, till he came to an open gallery hung with rags.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	ajar	ajar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
12	through	through	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	balustrade	balustrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a great bound door |  |  |  |  | ajar *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass through** | past | boy |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **climb up** | past |  | a brick staircase |  |  |  | with dirty walls and a rope; for a balustrade | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location staircase=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | boy |  |  | a open gallery |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gallery=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **hang** | participle |  | a open gallery *not said here* |  |  |  | with rags | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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