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title: Another broken-down staircase led from the gallery, and two Russian… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Another broken-down staircase led from the gallery, and two Russian sailors running down it almost upset the poor boy. Who acts: two Russian sailors, broken down staircase. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Metal Pig, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Metal Pig, sentence 63

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Another broken-down staircase led from the gallery, and two Russian sailors running down it almost upset the poor boy.

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**Who acts:** two Russian sailors, broken down staircase · **What happens:** break, lead, run down, upset · **To what, where:** broken down staircase, gallery, staircase, poor boy

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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 (two Russian sailors, broken down 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:pg27200:89:63
# text = Another broken-down staircase led from the gallery, and two Russian sailors running down it almost upset the poor boy.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	down	down	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gallery	gallery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sailors	sailor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	upset	upset	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lead** | participle |  | another broken down staircase *not said here* |  | the gallery |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from gallery=Destination |
| 3 | **run down** | gerund | two Russian sailors *not said here* | staircase |  |  |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **upset** | past | another broken down staircase | the poor boy |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boy=Experiencer |

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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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