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title: But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the stone was used… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the stone was used again for the walls of a new mansion on another spot--the baronial residence of Borreby, which still stands near the coast. Who acts: Borreby. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 4

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But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the stone was used again for the walls of a new mansion on another spot--the baronial residence of Borreby, which still stands near the coast.

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**Who acts:** Borreby · **What happens:** oblige, pull down, use, stand · **To what, where:** castle, stone, coast

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Borreby), 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:pg27200:212:4
# text = But the castle was obliged to be pulled down, and the stone was used again for the walls of a new mansion on another spot--the baronial residence of Borreby, which still stands near the coast.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	baronial	baronial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	residence	residence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Borreby	Borreby	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
37	near	near	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **pull down** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn slide-11.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **use** | past · passive |  | the stone |  |  | again | for the walls of a new mansion on another spot and the baronial residence of Borreby | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for wall=Eventuality |
| 4 | **stand** | present | Borreby |  |  | the coast | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near coast=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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