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description: She mounted the stairs; they were steep, having been made up of rough blocks of broken marble and the capital of a fallen pillar. Who acts: beam, stairs. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Nineteenth Evening, sentence 13

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She mounted the stairs; they were steep, having been made up of rough blocks of broken marble and the capital of a fallen pillar.

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**Who acts:** beam, stairs · **What happens:** mount, be, make up, break, fall · **To what, where:** stairs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Nineteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beam, stairs), 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:pg27200:110:13
# text = She mounted the stairs; they were steep, having been made up of rough blocks of broken marble and the capital of a fallen pillar.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blocks	block	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	capital	capital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | beam | the stairs |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stair=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | stairs *= stair* |  |  |  |  | steep *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make up** | gerund · perfect · passive | stairs *= stair* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of rough blocks of broken marble and the capital of a fallen pillar | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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