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title: On arriving at the castle the king led her into marble halls, where… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On arriving at the castle the king led her into marble halls, where large fountains played, and where the walls and the ceilings were covered with rich paintings. Who acts: king, large fountains. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with i
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 91

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On arriving at the castle the king led her into marble halls, where large fountains played, and where the walls and the ceilings were covered with rich paintings.

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**Who acts:** king, large fountains · **What happens:** arrive, lead, play, cover · **To what, where:** castle, head, marble halls, walls

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, large fountains), 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:pg27200:209:91
# text = On arriving at the castle the king led her into marble halls, where large fountains played, and where the walls and the ceilings were covered with rich paintings.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ceilings	ceiling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the king | head |  | marble halls |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into hall=Destination |
| 3 | **play** | past | large fountains |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the walls and the ceilings |  |  |  | with rich paintings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with painting=Theme |

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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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