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title: And so they lay on the counter for days and weeks, till they grew ha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And so they lay on the counter for days and weeks, till they grew hard and dry; but the thoughts of the maiden became ever more tender and womanly. ' Who acts: pennies, thoughts. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, with its depende
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 1, sentence 30

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And so they lay on the counter for days and weeks, till they grew hard and dry; but the thoughts of the maiden became ever more tender and womanly. '

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**Who acts:** pennies, thoughts · **What happens:** lay, grow, become, think · **To what, where:** counter, more tender, maiden

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, 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 (pennies, thoughts), 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:pg27200:202:30
# text = And so they lay on the counter for days and weeks, till they grew hard and dry; but the thoughts of the maiden became ever more tender and womanly. '
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	counter	counter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	womanly	womanly	ADV	RB	_	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
33	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | pennies *= penny* |  |  | the counter | day |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on counter=Destination |
| 2 | **grow** | past | pennies *= penny* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the thoughts of the maiden | more tender |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **think** |  |  | the maiden |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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