--- title: There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he sang to her all the songs he knew; and he glanced the while from time to time into the geography-book that lay open before him. Who acts: Charles, geography book. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/) / 3 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 3 There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he sang to her all the songs he knew; and he glanced the while from time to time into the geography-book that lay open before him. **Who acts:** Charles, geography book · **What happens:** sit, sing, know, glance, lie · **To what, where:** poor little fellow, songs, Augusta This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, geography book), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg1597:25:3 # text = There sat the poor little fellow, with his sister on his lap, and he sang to her all the songs he knew; and he glanced the while from time to time into the geography-book that lay open before him. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 glanced glance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 into into ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 geography geography NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 40 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 41 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 acl:relcl _ _ 42 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 xcomp _ _ 43 before before ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | | the poor little fellow | | there | | with Charles's sister on Charles's lap | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fellow=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Charles | all songs | Augusta | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 3 | **know** | past | Charles | all songs *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | | 4 | **glance** | past | Charles | | | | time; while | into the geography book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into book=Theme | | 5 | **lie** | past | the geography book | | | | before Charles | open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/2/) - next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/4/) - ↑ back to [The Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/)