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title: Away from the gorgeous regal halls was she led to a dark, dreary cel… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Away from the gorgeous regal halls was she led to a dark, dreary cell, where the wind whistled through the iron bars. Who acts: Eliza, wind. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3, sentence 11

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Away from the gorgeous regal halls was she led to a dark, dreary cell, where the wind whistled through the iron bars.

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**Who acts:** Eliza, wind · **What happens:** be, whistle · **To what, where:** iron bars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eliza, wind), 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:pg27200:210:11
# text = Away from the gorgeous regal halls was she led to a dark, dreary cell, where the wind whistled through the iron bars.
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	regal	regal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cell	cell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	bars	bar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Eliza |  |  |  |  | to a dark dreary cell; away, lead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **whistle** | past | the wind |  |  | the iron bars |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bar=Location |

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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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