--- title: She had been but a short time in the wood when night came on, and sh… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: She had been but a short time in the wood when night came on, and she quite lost the path; so she laid herself down on the soft moss, offered up her evening prayer, and leaned her head against the stump of a tree. Who acts: queen, night, soft moss. 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C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (queen, night, soft moss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:208:39 # text = She had been but a short time in the wood when night came on, and she quite lost the path; so she laid herself down on the soft moss, offered up her evening prayer, and leaned her head against the stump of a tree. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 cop _ _ 4 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 14 on on ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 26 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 obj _ _ 27 down down ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 34 up up ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 prayer prayer NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 leaned learn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 against against ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 stump stump NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | queen | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | participle | | a short time | | the wood | | | tree rules | | 3 | **come on** | past | night | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lose** | past | queen | the path | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Eventuality | | 5 | **lay down** | past | queen | queen | | the soft moss | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on moss=Destination | | 6 | **offer up** | participle | the soft moss *not said here* | queen's evening prayer | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme | | 7 | **learn** | past | queen *not said here* | queen's head | | | | against the stump of a tree | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | | 8 | **pray** | | queen | | | | | | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/40/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/)