--- title: Sorrowfully she laid herself down to sleep; and, after a while, it s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Sorrowfully she laid herself down to sleep; and, after a while, it seemed to her as if the branches of the trees parted over her head, and that the mild eyes of angels looked down upon her from heaven. Who acts: sunbeam, it, branches, mild eyes. 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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 (sunbeam, it, branches, mild eyes), 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:pg27200:208:65 # text = Sorrowfully she laid herself down to sleep; and, after a while, it seemed to her as if the branches of the trees parted over her head, and that the mild eyes of angels looked down upon her from heaven. 1 Sorrowfully sorrowfully ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 3 obj _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 while while NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 branches branch 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 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 26 parted part VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 27 over over ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 angels angel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 39 down down ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 upon upon ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay down** | past | sunbeam | sunbeam | | | | sorrowfully *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Result | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | sunbeam *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seem** | past | it | | sunbeam | | while | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **part** | past | the branches of the trees | | | sunbeam's head | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **look down** | past | the mild eyes of angels | | | | | upon sunbeam's heaven; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon heaven=Theme | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/66/) - ↑ back to [The Wild Swans, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/208/)