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title: When I lay sick upon the desolate heath, and no one would have pity… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When I lay sick upon the desolate heath, and no one would have pity on me, and no one would have anything to do with me, except the crows and daws, which came to peck me to bits, he carried me in his arms, and had to bear hard words because of the burden he brought on board ship. Who acts: I, one, c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 225

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When I lay sick upon the desolate heath, and no one would have pity on me, and no one would have anything to do with me, except the crows and daws, which came to peck me to bits, he carried me in his arms, and had to bear hard words because of the burden he brought on board ship.

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**Who acts:** I, one, crows, good · **What happens:** lie, desolate, have, do, come, peck · **To what, where:** desolate heath, pity, anything, me, arms, hard words

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one, crows, good), 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:pg27200:149:225
# text = When I lay sick upon the desolate heath, and no one would have pity on me, and no one would have anything to do with me, except the crows and daws, which came to peck me to bits, he carried me in his arms, and had to bear hard words because of the burden he brought on board ship.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	compound	_	_
8	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	except	except	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	daws	daw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	xcomp	_	_
55	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	_
57	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	60	case	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	fixed	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
61	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
62	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	acl:relcl	_	_
63	on	on	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
65	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	45	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | I |  |  | the desolate heath |  | sick *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon heath=Location |
| 2 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | would | no one | pity |  |  |  | on me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | would | no one | anything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | anything *not said here* |  |  |  | with me | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | the crows and daws |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **peck** | to-infinitive | the crows and daws *not said here* | me |  |  |  | to bits *result* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to bit=Result |
| 8 | **carry** | past | good | me |  | good's arms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Value in arm=Location |
| 9 | **have** | past | good *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **bear** | to-infinitive | good *not said here* | hard words |  |  |  | because the burden | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 11 | **bring** | past | good | the burden *not said here* |  | board ship |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent burden=Theme on ship=Destination |

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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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