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title: But the sick girl still remained where she was, quietly and patientl… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But the sick girl still remained where she was, quietly and patiently she lay all the day long, while her mother was away from home at her work. Who acts: sick girl, girl, mother. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom, with its dependency tree and 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Pea Blossom, sentence 28

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But the sick girl still remained where she was, quietly and patiently she lay all the day long, while her mother was away from home at her work.

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**Who acts:** sick girl, girl, mother · **What happens:** remain, be, lie, work · **To what, where:** home

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Pea Blossom. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sick girl, girl, mother), 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:pg27200:141:28
# text = But the sick girl still remained where she was, quietly and patiently she lay all the day long, while her mother was away from home at her work.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	patiently	patiently	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the sick girl |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | quietly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lie** | past | girl |  |  |  | day | patiently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | girl's mother |  |  | home |  | at girl's work; away *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **work** |  | girl |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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