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title: There she sat astride, as if on horseback, well wrapped up in her fl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There she sat astride, as if on horseback, well wrapped up in her flowered cloak with one leg hanging out--a leg in a tremendous fur boot. Who acts: aunt, one leg. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Our Aunt, sentence 88

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There she sat astride, as if on horseback, well wrapped up in her flowered cloak with one leg hanging out--a leg in a tremendous fur boot.

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**Who acts:** aunt, one leg · **What happens:** sit, wrap up, flower, hang out · **To what, where:** leg, tremendous fur boot, flowered cloak

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Our Aunt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aunt, one leg), 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:pg27200:139:88
# text = There she sat astride, as if on horseback, well wrapped up in her flowered cloak with one leg hanging out--a leg in a tremendous fur boot.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	astride	astride	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	flowered	flower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | aunt | a leg |  | a tremendous fur boot; there |  | astride *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme in boot=Location |
| 2 | **wrap up** | participle | aunt *not said here* |  |  | aunt's flowered cloak with one leg |  | well *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in cloak=Destination |
| 3 | **flower** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hang out** | gerund | one leg *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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