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title: "I'd rather lie on coarse sacking than lie in his silken beds," she… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "I'd rather lie on coarse sacking than lie in his silken beds," she declared. " Who acts: lady. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 58

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"I'd rather lie on coarse sacking than lie in his silken beds," she declared. "

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**Who acts:** lady · **What happens:** lie, declare · **To what, where:** coarse sacking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (lady), 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:pg27200:149:58
# text = "I'd rather lie on coarse sacking than lie in his silken beds," she declared. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	sacking	sacking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	lie	lie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** *in a quote* | would | lady |  |  | coarse sacking than lie |  | in Copenhagen's silken beds | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sacking=Location |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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