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title: When a mother sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When a mother sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the infant's head. Who acts: mother, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Phoenix Bird, sentence 8

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When a mother sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the infant's head.

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**Who acts:** mother, bird · **What happens:** sit, stand, form · **To what, where:** pillow, glory, head

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Phoenix Bird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, bird), 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:pg27200:144:8
# text = When a mother sits by her infant's cradle, he stands on the pillow, and, with his wings, forms a glory around the infant's head.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present | a mother |  |  |  |  | by mother's infant's cradle | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by cradle=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | present | bird |  |  | the pillow |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillow=Location |
| 3 | **form** | present | bird *not said here* | a glory |  | the infant's head |  | with bird's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location glory=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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