---
title: She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it w… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it was so wet, it certainly must have been raining. Who acts: grass, old grey linen apron, apron, it. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/60/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 60

# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 60

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it was so wet, it certainly must have been raining.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** grass, old grey linen apron, apron, it · **What happens:** have, hang, be, rain · **To what, where:** old grey linen apron, head

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (grass, old grey linen apron, apron, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg1597:25:60
# text = She had an old grey linen apron hanging over her head and back: it was so wet, it certainly must have been raining.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	linen	linen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux	_	_
25	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | grass | a old grey linen apron |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apron=Patient |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | a old grey linen apron *not said here* |  |  | grass's head |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over head=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | apron |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rain** | must · perfect · progressive | it |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/59/)
- next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/61/)
- ↑ back to [The Dream of Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/25/)