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title: In the horn of plenty sat with folded arms a little tiny love-god, c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the horn of plenty sat with folded arms a little tiny love-god, contemplating the great solemn river-god, a true picture of the boy at the spinning wheel--the features were exactly the same. Who acts: features. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 27

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In the horn of plenty sat with folded arms a little tiny love-god, contemplating the great solemn river-god, a true picture of the boy at the spinning wheel--the features were exactly the same.

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**Who acts:** features · **What happens:** sit, fold, contemplate, be · **To what, where:** little tiny love god, horn, great solemn river god

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (features), 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:pg27200:114:27
# text = In the horn of plenty sat with folded arms a little tiny love-god, contemplating the great solemn river-god, a true picture of the boy at the spinning wheel--the features were exactly the same.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	folded	fold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	contemplating	contemplate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	spinning	spinning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
38	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | a little tiny love god |  | the horn of plenty |  | with folded arms | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in horn=Location |
| 2 | **fold** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **contemplate** | gerund |  | the great solemn river god |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the features |  |  |  |  | exactly, same *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «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.

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