--- title: A girl rests there: she has put down her heavy pails filled with wat… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: A girl rests there: she has put down her heavy pails filled with water, the yoke with which she has carried them rests on one of her shoulders, and she leans against the mast of victory. Who acts: girl, yoke. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Eveni --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/13/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [Seventeenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/) / 13 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Seventeenth Evening, sentence 13 A girl rests there: she has put down her heavy pails filled with water, the yoke with which she has carried them rests on one of her shoulders, and she leans against the mast of victory. **Who acts:** girl, yoke · **What happens:** rest, put down, fill, carry, lean · **To what, where:** heavy pails, pails, water, mast This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Seventeenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, yoke), 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:pg27200:108:13 # text = A girl rests there: she has put down her heavy pails filled with water, the yoke with which she has carried them rests on one of her shoulders, and she leans against the mast of victory. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 9 down down ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pails pail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 13 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 yoke yoke NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 carried carry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 acl:relcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 rests rest VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 leans lean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 against against ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mast mast NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 victory victory NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | present | a girl | | | there | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **put down** | present · perfect | girl | girl's heavy pails | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pail=Goal | | 3 | **fill** | participle | | girl's heavy pails *not said here* | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | | 4 | **carry** | present · perfect | yoke | pails *= pail* | | | | with the yoke | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 5 | **rest** | present | the yoke | water *not said here* | | | | on one of girl's shoulders | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent water=Theme on one=Location | | 6 | **lean** | present | yoke | | | the mast of victory | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against mast=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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/14/) - ↑ back to [Seventeenth Evening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/108/)