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title: On the floor lay the bundle of flax which she had spun from the nett… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: On the floor lay the bundle of flax which she had spun from the nettles, and under the ceiling hung the coat she had made. Who acts: smile. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 100

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On the floor lay the bundle of flax which she had spun from the nettles, and under the ceiling hung the coat she had made.

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**Who acts:** smile · **What happens:** lie, spin, hang, make · **To what, where:** bundle, floor, flax, nettles, coat, ceiling

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile), 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:pg27200:209:100
# text = On the floor lay the bundle of flax which she had spun from the nettles, and under the ceiling hung the coat she had made.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
21	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the bundle of flax |  | the floor |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bundle=Theme |
| 2 | **spin** | past · perfect · passive |  | flax |  | the nettles |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from nettle=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hang** | past |  | the coat |  | the ceiling |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent coat=Theme under ceiling=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past · perfect | smile | the coat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Product |

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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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