Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 10

Each tower was erected in the form of a lily, and within the stern was a winding staircase, through which one could ascend to the top and step out upon the leaves as upon balconies.

Who acts: one · What happens: erect, wind, be, ascend, step out, form · To what, where: tower, form, winding staircase, top, leaves, lily

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 tower	det
2	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 erected	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 erected	aux:pass
4	erected	erect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 form	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 form	det
7	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 erected	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 lily	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lily	det
10	lily	lily	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 form	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 staircase	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 staircase	cc
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 stern	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stern	det
15	stern	stern	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 staircase	obl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 staircase	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 staircase	det
18	winding	wind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 staircase	amod
19	staircase	staircase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 erected	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ascend	punct
21	through	through	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 ascend	obl
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ascend	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 ascend	aux
25	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 erected	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ascend	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 step	cc
30	step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ascend	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 step	compound:prt
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 leaves	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 leaves	det
34	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 step	obl
35	as	as	ADV	_	30 step	advmod
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 balconies	case
37	balconies	balcony	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 step	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 erected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	erect	past · passive		each tower	the form of a lily		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product
2	wind	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	past		a winding staircase		within the stern	tree rules
4	ascend	could	one		the top		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location to top=Destination
5	step out	infinitive	one not said here		the leaves	upon balconies	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon leaf=Trajectory
6	form			a lily			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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