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title: An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the p… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit. Who acts: old grandmother, grand daughter. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 124

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An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit.

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**Who acts:** old grandmother, grand daughter · **What happens:** sit, servant, come · **To what, where:** air

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old grandmother, grand daughter), 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:pg1597:12:124
# text = An old grandmother was sitting in the air; her grand-daughter, the poor and lovely servant just come for a short visit.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	servant	servant	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | a old grandmother |  |  | the air |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 2 | **servant** | present | grandmother's grand daughter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | infinitive | grandmother's grand daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a short visit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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