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title: He looked through another pane, and saw the ladder in Jacob's dream,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He looked through another pane, and saw the ladder in Jacob's dream, on which the angels were ascending and descending with outspread wings. Who acts: prince, angels, Jacob. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 181

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He looked through another pane, and saw the ladder in Jacob's dream, on which the angels were ascending and descending with outspread wings.

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**Who acts:** prince, angels, Jacob · **What happens:** look, see, ascend, descend, dream · **To what, where:** ladder, dream

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, angels, Jacob), 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:pg27200:140:181
# text = He looked through another pane, and saw the ladder in Jacob's dream, on which the angels were ascending and descending with outspread wings.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	pane	pane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	ascending	ascend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	descending	descend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	outspread	outspread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	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 | **look** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | through another pane | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through pane=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past |  | the ladder |  | Jacob's dream |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ladder=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ascend** | past · progressive | the angels |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **descend** | gerund | the angels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with outspread wings | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dream** |  | Jacob |  |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=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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