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title: The Lord had thrown down a covering for his grave during the storm,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lord had thrown down a covering for his grave during the storm, and the heavy mound of sand lies upon it to this day. Who acts: Lord, heavy mound. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 6, sentence 26

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The Lord had thrown down a covering for his grave during the storm, and the heavy mound of sand lies upon it to this day.

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**Who acts:** Lord, heavy mound · **What happens:** throw down, lie · **To what, where:** covering, sand

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, heavy mound), 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:pg27200:163:26
# text = The Lord had thrown down a covering for his grave during the storm, and the heavy mound of sand lies upon it to this day.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	covering	covering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | past · perfect | the Lord | a covering |  |  | during the storm | for Lord's grave | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent covering=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the heavy mound of sand |  |  | sand | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |

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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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