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title: He remained there that night and the whole of the following day, for… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He remained there that night and the whole of the following day, for his body required rest and refreshment, and in the valley there was rain and a thaw. Who acts: light, body, rain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 18

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He remained there that night and the whole of the following day, for his body required rest and refreshment, and in the valley there was rain and a thaw.

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**Who acts:** light, body, rain · **What happens:** remain, follow, require, be · **To what, where:** rest, valley

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, body, rain), 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:pg27200:204:18
# text = He remained there that night and the whole of the following day, for his body required rest and refreshment, and in the valley there was rain and a thaw.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
28	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	thaw	thaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | light |  |  | there | night |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **require** | past | light's body | rest and refreshment |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rest=Precondition |
| 4 | **be** | past | rain and a thaw |  |  | the valley; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=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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