Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors, sentence 9

We mount the winding staircase of stone, and march through the long passages under the heavy roof-beams.

Who acts: We · What happens: mount, wind · To what, where: winding staircase

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bishop of Borglum and His Warriors. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 mount	nsubj
2	mount	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 staircase	det
4	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 staircase	amod
5	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mount	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 stone	case
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 staircase	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 march	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 march	cc
10	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mount	obl
11	through	through	ADP	_	14 passages	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 passages	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 passages	amod
14	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 mount	obl
15	under	under	ADP	_	20 beams	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beams	det
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beams	amod
18	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beams	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 roof	punct
20	beams	beam	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passages	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mount	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	present	We	the winding staircase of stone				through the long passages under the heavy roof beams; march obl	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent staircase=Patient through passage=Instrument
2	wind	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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