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title: The provision basket lay in the lap of the young girl as the family… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The provision basket lay in the lap of the young girl as the family drove out to the forest, and the neck of the bottle peeped out from between the folds of the white napkin. Who acts: provision basket, family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 33

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The provision basket lay in the lap of the young girl as the family drove out to the forest, and the neck of the bottle peeped out from between the folds of the white napkin.

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**Who acts:** provision basket, family · **What happens:** lie, drive out, peep out · **To what, where:** lap, forest, neck, folds

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (provision basket, family), 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:pg27200:13:33
# text = The provision basket lay in the lap of the young girl as the family drove out to the forest, and the neck of the bottle peeped out from between the folds of the white napkin.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	provision	provision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lap	lap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	between	between	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	folds	fold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	napkin	napkin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | the provision basket |  |  | the lap of the young girl |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in lap=Location |
| 2 | **drive out** | past | the family |  |  | the forest |  | out *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |
| 3 | **peep out** | participle · passive |  | the neck of the bottle |  | the folds of the white napkin |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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