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title: It was dark all around, and hen sat close to hen, but the one who sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It was dark all around, and hen sat close to hen, but the one who sat nearest to her merry neighbour did not sleep. Who acts: doubt, hen, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 13

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It was dark all around, and hen sat close to hen, but the one who sat nearest to her merry neighbour did not sleep.

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**Who acts:** doubt, hen, one · **What happens:** be, sit, not sleep · **To what, where:** nearest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt, hen, one), 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:pg27200:126:13
# text = It was dark all around, and hen sat close to hen, but the one who sat nearest to her merry neighbour did not sleep.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	around	around	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | doubt |  |  |  |  | around, dark *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past | hen |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | the one | nearest |  |  |  | to hen's merry neighbour | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location near=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **sleep** | past · do-support | the one |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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