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title: From here a flight of steps led down to a court, where from a well w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: From here a flight of steps led down to a court, where from a well water was drawn up by iron rollers to the different stories of the house, and where the water-buckets hung side by side. Who acts: side. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 61

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From here a flight of steps led down to a court, where from a well water was drawn up by iron rollers to the different stories of the house, and where the water-buckets hung side by side.

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**Who acts:** side · **What happens:** lead down, draw up, hang · **To what, where:** steps, well water, water buckets

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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 (side), 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:pg27200:89:61
# text = From here a flight of steps led down to a court, where from a well water was drawn up by iron rollers to the different stories of the house, and where the water-buckets hung side by side.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	rollers	roller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
33	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	38	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	buckets	bucket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
39	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	xcomp	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead down** | participle |  | steps *not said here* |  |  |  | to a court | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to court=Patient |
| 2 | **draw up** | past · passive |  |  |  | a well water |  | by iron rollers; to the different stories of the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: from water=Initial\_Location to story=Destination |
| 3 | **hang** | participle · passive | side | the water buckets |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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