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title: The large flight of steps which led to the entrance looked like a bo… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The large flight of steps which led to the entrance looked like a bower covered with roses and broad-leaved plants. Who acts: steps, large flight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Everything in the Right Place, sentence 52

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The large flight of steps which led to the entrance looked like a bower covered with roses and broad-leaved plants.

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**Who acts:** steps, large flight · **What happens:** lead, look, cover, leav · **To what, where:** bower

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Everything in the Right Place. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (steps, large flight), 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:pg27200:155:52
# text = The large flight of steps which led to the entrance looked like a bower covered with roses and broad-leaved plants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bower	bower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	leaved	leav	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **lead** | past | steps |  |  |  |  | to the entrance | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to entrance=Patient |
| 2 | **look** | past | the large flight of steps |  |  |  |  | like a bower | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  | a bower *not said here* |  |  |  | with roses and leaved plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with rose=Theme |
| 4 | **leav** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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