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title: I thought of the simple little room where little Bertel sat in his n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I thought of the simple little room where little Bertel sat in his night-shirt by the spinning wheel. Who acts: I, little Bertel. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-third Evening, sentence 37

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I thought of the simple little room where little Bertel sat in his night-shirt by the spinning wheel.

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**Who acts:** I, little Bertel · **What happens:** think, sit, spin · **To what, where:** night shirt

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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 (I, little Bertel), 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:pg27200:114:37
# text = I thought of the simple little room where little Bertel sat in his night-shirt by the spinning wheel.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Bertel	Bertel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past | little Bertel |  |  | Bertel's night shirt |  | by the spinning wheel | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shirt=Location |
| 3 | **spin** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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