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title: She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses. Who acts: water. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Real Princess, sentence 11

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She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.

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**Who acts:** water · **What happens:** lay, put · **To what, where:** twenty mattresses, twenty feather beds, mattresses

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Real Princess. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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:pg1597:4:11
# text = She then laid twenty mattresses one upon another over the three peas, and put twenty feather beds over the mattresses.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nmod	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mattresses	mattress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | water | twenty mattresses |  |  | then |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mattress=Result |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | water *not said here* | twenty feather beds |  | the mattresses |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bed=Theme over mattress=Destination |

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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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