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title: The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empt… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening, sentence 3

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The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib.

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**What happens:** sleep, rest · **To what, where:** turkey cock, beam, saddle, empty crib

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-ninth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:120:3
# text = The turkey-cock slept on the beam, and the saddle rested in the empty crib.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	turkey	turkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	rested	rest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	crib	crib	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | participle |  | the turkey cock and the saddle *not said here* |  | the beam |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rest** | participle |  | the saddle *not said here* |  | the empty crib |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in crib=Location |

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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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