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title: He felt very tired; so he sat down under the tree, and very soon beg… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt very tired; so he sat down under the tree, and very soon began to nod, then his eyes closed in sleep. Who acts: Knud. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Under the Willow-tree, part 3, sentence 25

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He felt very tired; so he sat down under the tree, and very soon began to nod, then his eyes closed in sleep.

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**Who acts:** Knud · **What happens:** feel, sit down, begin, nod, close · **To what, where:** tree, eyes

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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 (Knud), 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:pg27200:204:25
# text = He felt very tired; so he sat down under the tree, and very soon began to nod, then his eyes closed in sleep.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	nod	nod	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | Knud |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | Knud |  |  | the tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Knud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **nod** | to-infinitive | Knud *not said here* | Knud's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 5 | **close** | participle |  | Knud's eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | in sleep | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sleep=Topic |

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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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