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title: And so she sat there in her pride, and had many such thoughts as the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And so she sat there in her pride, and had many such thoughts as these,--"I could almost fancy that I came from a sunbeam, I am so fine. Who acts: needle, piece. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Darning-needle, sentence 46

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And so she sat there in her pride, and had many such thoughts as these,--"I could almost fancy that I came from a sunbeam, I am so fine.

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**Who acts:** needle, piece · **What happens:** sit, have, fancy, come, be, pride · **To what, where:** pride, many such thoughts, sunbeam · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (needle, piece), 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:pg27200:21:46
# text = And so she sat there in her pride, and had many such thoughts as these,--"I could almost fancy that I came from a sunbeam, I am so fine.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	sunbeam	sunbeam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | needle |  |  | needle's pride; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pride=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | needle *not said here* | many such thoughts |  |  |  | as these | tree rules |
| 3 | **fancy** *in a quote* | could | the piece of broken bottle *= piece* |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | past | the piece of broken bottle *= piece* |  |  | a sunbeam |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from sunbeam=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the piece of broken bottle *= piece* |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pride** |  | needle |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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