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title: All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the forms and learning their lessons, it sat on its thin green stalk and learnt from the sun and from its surroundings how kind God is, and it rejoiced that the song of the little lark expressed so sweetly and distinctly its own feeling
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 6

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All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the forms and learning their lessons, it sat on its thin green stalk and learnt from the sun and from its surroundings how kind God is, and it rejoiced that the song of the little lark expressed so sweetly and distinctly its own feelings.

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**Who acts:** children, school, kind God, little lark · **What happens:** be, sit, learn, express, sing · **To what, where:** school, forms, lessons, thin green stalk, sun, surroundings

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, school, kind God, little lark), 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:pg27200:20:6
# text = All the children were at school, and while they were sitting on the forms and learning their lessons, it sat on its thin green stalk and learnt from the sun and from its surroundings how kind God is, and it rejoiced that the song of the little lark expressed so sweetly and distinctly its own feelings.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stalk	stalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	learnt	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	surroundings	surroundings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	44	obl	_	_
37	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
38	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	lark	lark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
52	expressed	express	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	advcl	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	54	conj	_	_
57	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
58	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all children |  |  | school |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | past · progressive | children *= child* |  |  | the forms |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on form=Location |
| 3 | **learn** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | children's lessons |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
| 4 | **sit** | past | school | school *not said here* |  | school's thin green stalk |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent school=Theme on stalk=Location |
| 5 | **learn** | past | school *not said here* |  |  | the sun |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from sun=Source |
| 6 | **is** | present | kind God |  |  | school's surroundings |  | rejoice *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **express** | participle · passive |  | the song of the little lark |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 8 | **sing** |  | the little lark |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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