Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 31

Then came a staircase which went up a long way, and then came down a little way and led to a balcony, which was in a very ruinous state.

Who acts: staircase, balcony · What happens: come, go up, come down, lead, be · To what, where: long way, little way, ruinous state

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staircase, balcony), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 staircase	det
4	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 staircase	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 way	det
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 way	amod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 came	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 came	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obl:unmarked
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 led	cc
20	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 balcony	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 balcony	det
23	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 led	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 state	punct
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 state	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 state	cop
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 state	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 state	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 ruinous	advmod
30	ruinous	ruinous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 state	amod
31	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 balcony	appos
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a staircase			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go up	past	a staircase	a long way				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	come down	past	a staircase not said here	a little way		then	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lead	past	a staircase not said here				to a balcony	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to balcony=Patient
5	is	past	a balcony		a ruinous state			tree rules

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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