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title: The three high-born daughters were lying in bed because of the cold,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The three high-born daughters were lying in bed because of the cold, and their father crouching beneath his leather coverlet. Who acts: three born daughters, father. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of the Wind, sentence 113

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The three high-born daughters were lying in bed because of the cold, and their father crouching beneath his leather coverlet.

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**Who acts:** three born daughters, father · **What happens:** bear, lie, crouch · **To what, where:** bed, leather coverlet

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of the Wind. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three born daughters, father), 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:pg27200:212:113
# text = The three high-born daughters were lying in bed because of the cold, and their father crouching beneath his leather coverlet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
3	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	crouching	crouch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
20	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	leather	leather	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lie** | past · progressive | the three born daughters |  |  | bed |  | because the cold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 3 | **crouch** | gerund | daughters's father |  |  | father's leather coverlet |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath coverlet=Location |

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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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