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title: Then she laid me in vinegar till I became quite green, and after tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then she laid me in vinegar till I became quite green, and after that she filled up the hole with cement, rubbed me a little to brighten me up, and went out in the twilight hour to the lottery collector, to buy herself a ticket, with a shilling that should bring luck. Who acts: string, I, shilling. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Silver Shilling, sentence 60

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Then she laid me in vinegar till I became quite green, and after that she filled up the hole with cement, rubbed me a little to brighten me up, and went out in the twilight hour to the lottery collector, to buy herself a ticket, with a shilling that should bring luck.

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**Who acts:** string, I, shilling · **What happens:** lay, become, fill up, rub, brighten up, go out · **To what, where:** me, vinegar, hole, string, luck

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Silver Shilling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (string, I, shilling), 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:pg27200:167:60
# text = Then she laid me in vinegar till I became quite green, and after that she filled up the hole with cement, rubbed me a little to brighten me up, and went out in the twilight hour to the lottery collector, to buy herself a ticket, with a shilling that should bring luck.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	vinegar	vinegar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	cement	cement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	brighten	brighten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
30	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	lottery	lottery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	collector	collector	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	conj	_	_
47	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	46	obj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	ticket	ticket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	shilling	shilling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	appos	_	_
54	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj	_	_
55	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	acl:relcl	_	_
57	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | string | me |  | vinegar | then |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme in vinegar=Destination |
| 2 | **become** | past | I |  |  |  |  | green *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fill up** | past | string | the hole |  |  | after that | with cement | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hole=Patient with cement=Instrument |
| 4 | **rub** | past | string *not said here* |  | me |  |  | a little *obl:unmarked* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Destination |
| 5 | **brighten up** | to-infinitive | string *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
| 6 | **go out** | past |  |  |  |  | hour | to the lottery collector | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **buy** | to-infinitive |  | string |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary ticket=Theme |
| 8 | **bring** | should | a shilling | luck |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent luck=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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