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title: She wanted to sit down on the pauper's grave where the bitter fern g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She wanted to sit down on the pauper's grave where the bitter fern grows; but for her there was neither peace nor rest. Who acts: Karen, bitter fern. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 60

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She wanted to sit down on the pauper's grave where the bitter fern grows; but for her there was neither peace nor rest.

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**Who acts:** Karen, bitter fern · **What happens:** want, sit down, grow, be · **To what, where:** grave, peace

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Karen, bitter fern), 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:pg27200:154:60
# text = She wanted to sit down on the pauper's grave where the bitter fern grows; but for her there was neither peace nor rest.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pauper	pauper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fern	fern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	23	cc:preconj	_	_
23	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
25	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | Karen |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Karen *not said here* |  |  | the pauper's grave |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grave=Location |
| 3 | **grow** | present | the bitter fern |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | peace nor rest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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