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title: And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but wit… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but with all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while the hot drops fell scalding from the ceiling on his face. Who acts: sanctuary, hot drops. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3,
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3, sentence 96

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And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but with all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while the hot drops fell scalding from the ceiling on his face.

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**Who acts:** sanctuary, hot drops · **What happens:** lie, fall, scald · **To what, where:** uppermost bank, ceiling

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sanctuary, hot drops), 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:pg1597:7:96
# text = And so there he lay on the uppermost bank in the vapor-bath; but with all his clothes on, in his boots and galoshes, while the hot drops fell scalding from the ceiling on his face.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	uppermost	uppermost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	vapor	vapor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	20	det:predet	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	21	obl	_	_
21	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	galoshes	galosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
34	scalding	scald	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | sanctuary |  |  | the uppermost bank; there |  | in the vapor bath; in sanctuary's boots and galoshes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the hot drops |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **scald** | gerund | the hot drops *not said here* |  |  | the ceiling |  | on sanctuary's face | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient on face=Instrument |

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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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