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title: She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next chamber, where slept strange warriors. Who acts: dread. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 80

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She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next chamber, where slept strange warriors.

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**Who acts:** dread · **What happens:** step, sleep · **To what, where:** verandah, strange warriors

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dread), 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:pg27200:88:80
# text = She stepped from the verandah through the empty hall into the next chamber, where slept strange warriors.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	verandah	verandah	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
16	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **step** | past | dread |  |  | the verandah |  | through the empty hall; into the next chamber | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination |
| 2 | **sleep** | participle |  | strange warriors |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=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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