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description: In each of the two wings of the castle there was a staircase which led to a place below the entrance, from whence there is access to a low, vaulted cellar. Who acts: staircase. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4, sentence 29

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In each of the two wings of the castle there was a staircase which led to a place below the entrance, from whence there is access to a low, vaulted cellar.

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**Who acts:** staircase · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** each

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase), 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:pg27200:161:29
# text = In each of the two wings of the castle there was a staircase which led to a place below the entrance, from whence there is access to a low, vaulted cellar.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	below	below	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
27	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
32	vaulted	vaulted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a staircase |  |  | each; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in each=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | past | a staircase |  |  |  |  | to a place below the entrance | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to place=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | 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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