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title: There he lay stretched on his bed, dead, with his old nightcap tight… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There he lay stretched on his bed, dead, with his old nightcap tightly clasped in his two hands. Who acts: tree, old nightcap. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 211

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There he lay stretched on his bed, dead, with his old nightcap tightly clasped in his two hands.

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**Who acts:** tree, old nightcap · **What happens:** lie, stretch, clasp · **To what, where:** bed, two hands

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, old nightcap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:7976`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:128:211
# text = There he lay stretched on his bed, dead, with his old nightcap tightly clasped in his two hands.
1	There	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nightcap	nightcap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | tree |  |  | there |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stretch** | participle | tree *not said here* |  |  | tree's bed |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **clasp** | participle | tree's old nightcap |  |  | tree's two hands |  | tightly *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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