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title: The nobleman went up stairs and down, through halls and passages; ye… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobleman went up stairs and down, through halls and passages; yet none of those whom he met had heard of the bird. Who acts: nobleman, none. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 28

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The nobleman went up stairs and down, through halls and passages; yet none of those whom he met had heard of the bird.

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**Who acts:** nobleman, none · **What happens:** go up, meet, hear · **To what, where:** stairs

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nobleman, none), 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:pg27200:125:28
# text = The nobleman went up stairs and down, through halls and passages; yet none of those whom he met had heard of the bird.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobleman	nobleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	22	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	_
18	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | the nobleman | stairs and halls and passages |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **meet** | past | nobleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past · perfect | none |  |  |  |  | of the bird | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of bird=Stimulus |

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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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