--- title: She wished to seat herself on a poor man's grave, where the bitter t… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She wished to seat herself on a poor man's grave, where the bitter tansy grew; but for her there was neither peace nor rest; and when she danced towards the open church door, she saw an angel standing there. Who acts: Karen, bitter tansy, peace, angel. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/56/) [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 Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/) / 56 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Red Shoes, sentence 56 She wished to seat herself on a poor man's grave, where the bitter tansy grew; but for her there was neither peace nor rest; and when she danced towards the open church door, she saw an angel standing there. **Who acts:** Karen, bitter tansy, peace, angel · **What happens:** wish, grow, be, dance, see, stand · **To what, where:** seat, grave, open church door, angel This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, bitter tansy, peace, angel), 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:pg1597:27:56 # text = She wished to seat herself on a poor man's grave, where the bitter tansy grew; but for her there was neither peace nor rest; and when she danced towards the open church door, she saw an angel standing there. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wished wish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 2 obl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tansy tansy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 24 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 25 cc:preconj _ _ 25 peace peace NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 26 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 27 cc _ _ 27 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 32 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 danced dance VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 33 towards towards ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 angel angel NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wish** | past | Karen | seat | | a poor man's grave | | Karen *obl* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot seat=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | the bitter tansy | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **be** | past | peace nor rest | | | there | | for Karen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **dance** | past | Karen | | | the open church door | | | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme towards door=Trajectory | | 5 | **see** | past | Karen | a angel | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer angel=Stimulus | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | a angel *not said here* | | | there | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/57/) - ↑ back to [The Red Shoes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/27/)