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title: "I looked in, over the lamp, into the little maiden's bed, where she… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I looked in, over the lamp, into the little maiden's bed, where she lay under the neat white coverlet, her hands folded demurely and her little face quite grave and serious. Who acts: little sister, sister, hands. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-seco
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 13

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"I looked in, over the lamp, into the little maiden's bed, where she lay under the neat white coverlet, her hands folded demurely and her little face quite grave and serious.

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**Who acts:** little sister, sister, hands · **What happens:** look in, lie, fold · **To what, where:** neat white coverlet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sister, sister, hands), 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:pg27200:123:13
# text = "I looked in, over the lamp, into the little maiden's bed, where she lay under the neat white coverlet, her hands folded demurely and her little face quite grave and serious.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lamp	lamp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	under	under	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	folded	fold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
29	demurely	demurely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
34	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look in** *in a quote* | past | little sister *= sister* |  |  |  |  | into the little maiden's bed | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into bed=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** *in a quote* | past | sister |  |  | the neat white coverlet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under coverlet=Location |
| 3 | **fold** *in a quote* | past | sister's hands |  |  |  |  | demurely *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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