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title: The following year the snail lay in almost the same spot, in the sun… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The following year the snail lay in almost the same spot, in the sunshine under the rose-tree, which was again budding and bearing roses as fresh and beautiful as ever. Who acts: snail, rose tree. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree, sentence 8

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The following year the snail lay in almost the same spot, in the sunshine under the rose-tree, which was again budding and bearing roses as fresh and beautiful as ever.

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**Who acts:** snail, rose tree · **What happens:** follow, lie, be · **To what, where:** same spot, budding

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Snail and the Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snail, rose tree), 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:pg27200:157:8
# text = The following year the snail lay in almost the same spot, in the sunshine under the rose-tree, which was again budding and bearing roses as fresh and beautiful as ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	again	again	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	budding	budding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the snail |  |  | the same spot | year |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the rose tree and budding and bearing roses | budding and bearing roses |  |  | again | as fresh | 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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