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title: He followed the child to the wretched house, and ascended the narrow… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He followed the child to the wretched house, and ascended the narrow, crazy staircase which led to a little garret in the roof. Who acts: Ib, narrow crazy staircase. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 180

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He followed the child to the wretched house, and ascended the narrow, crazy staircase which led to a little garret in the roof.

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**Who acts:** Ib, narrow crazy staircase · **What happens:** follow, ascend, lead · **To what, where:** child, wretched house, narrow crazy staircase

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ib, narrow crazy 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:pg27200:51:180
# text = He followed the child to the wretched house, and ascended the narrow, crazy staircase which led to a little garret in the roof.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	crazy	crazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	garret	garret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Ib | the child |  | the wretched house |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme to house=Trajectory |
| 2 | **ascend** | past | Ib *not said here* | the narrow crazy staircase |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme staircase=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lead** | past | the narrow crazy staircase |  |  |  |  | to a little garret in the roof | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to garret=Patient |

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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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