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title: It had been taken down from its high position, in consequence of a c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It had been taken down from its high position, in consequence of a crack in the metal which prevented it from ever chiming again, and a new bell now occupied its place. Who acts: metal, new bell. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Albu
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 24

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It had been taken down from its high position, in consequence of a crack in the metal which prevented it from ever chiming again, and a new bell now occupied its place.

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**Who acts:** metal, new bell · **What happens:** take down, prevent, chime, occupy · **To what, where:** It, high position, grass, place

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (metal, new bell), 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:pg27200:129:24
# text = It had been taken down from its high position, in consequence of a crack in the metal which prevented it from ever chiming again, and a new bell now occupied its place.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	consequence	consequence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	advmod	_	_
24	chiming	chime	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	occupied	occupy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **take down** | past · perfect · passive |  | It |  | grass's high position |  | in consequence of a crack in the metal | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in consequence=Destination |
| 2 | **prevent** | past | the metal | grass |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme |
| 3 | **chime** | gerund | the metal *not said here* |  |  |  | ever; again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **occupy** | past | a new bell | grass's place |  |  | now |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus place=Experiencer |

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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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