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title: They laid her upon the humble bed; there was not a yard of linen on… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: They laid her upon the humble bed; there was not a yard of linen on it, only a woollen coverlet to keep the occupant warm. Who acts: sailors. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1, sentence 105

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They laid her upon the humble bed; there was not a yard of linen on it, only a woollen coverlet to keep the occupant warm.

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**Who acts:** sailors · **What happens:** lay, not be, keep · **To what, where:** stranger, linen, yard, occupant

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sailors), 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:pg27200:158:105
# text = They laid her upon the humble bed; there was not a yard of linen on it, only a woollen coverlet to keep the occupant warm.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	humble	humble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	linen	linen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	woollen	woollen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	occupant	occupant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | sailors *= sailor* | stranger |  | linen |  | upon the humble bed | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon bed=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a yard |  |  |  | of linen | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | sailors *= sailor* *not said here* | the occupant |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occupant=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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