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title: They walked on till they reached the picture gallery, and mounted th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They walked on till they reached the picture gallery, and mounted the same staircase up which he had ridden that night on the Metal Pig. Who acts: box, gentleman. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 110

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They walked on till they reached the picture gallery, and mounted the same staircase up which he had ridden that night on the Metal Pig.

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**Who acts:** box, gentleman · **What happens:** walk, reach, mount, ride · **To what, where:** picture gallery, same staircase

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (box, gentleman), 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:pg27200:89:110
# text = They walked on till they reached the picture gallery, and mounted the same staircase up which he had ridden that night on the Metal Pig.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Metal	Metal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | box |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past | box | the picture gallery |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gallery=Theme |
| 3 | **mount** | past | box *not said here* | the same staircase |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staircase=Patient |
| 4 | **ride** | past · perfect | gentleman |  |  | the same staircase | night | on the Metal Pig | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent up which=Trajectory |

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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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