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title: In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest was immured, and his hands and feet tied together with strips of bark. Who acts: hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 3, sentence 65

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In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest was immured, and his hands and feet tied together with strips of bark.

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**Who acts:** hands · **What happens:** immure, tie · **To what, where:** young Christian priest, deep stony cellars

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, 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 (hands), 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:pg27200:85:65
# text = In the deep stony cellars of the castle, the young Christian priest was immured, and his hands and feet tied together with strips of bark.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cellars	cellar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	priest	priest	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	immured	immure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
22	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **immure** | past · passive |  | the young Christian priest |  | the deep stony cellars of the castle |  |  | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tie** | participle | fragrance's hands and feet |  |  |  |  | with strips of bark; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with strip=Co-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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