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title: The corpse lay in a bedroom, near to the one in which we sat, and th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The corpse lay in a bedroom, near to the one in which we sat, and the old man was in great distress and weeping like a child. Who acts: corpse, we, old man. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Grave-stone, sentence 22

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The corpse lay in a bedroom, near to the one in which we sat, and the old man was in great distress and weeping like a child.

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**Who acts:** corpse, we, old man · **What happens:** lie, sit, be, weep · **To what, where:** one, bedroom, great distress

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Grave-stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corpse, we, old man), 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:pg27200:8079`): 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:pg27200:130:22
# text = The corpse lay in a bedroom, near to the one in which we sat, and the old man was in great distress and weeping like a child.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	near	near	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	distress	distress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	.	.	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 | the corpse |  | the one | a bedroom |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bedroom=Location |
| 2 | **sit** | past | we |  |  |  |  | in the one | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the old man |  |  | great distress |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weep** | gerund | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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:** 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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