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title: She felt a longing to rest on the soft Oriental carpets within, or t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She felt a longing to rest on the soft Oriental carpets within, or to lean against the weeping willow without by the clear water. Who acts: weariness. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Dryad, part 3, sentence 140

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She felt a longing to rest on the soft Oriental carpets within, or to lean against the weeping willow without by the clear water.

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**Who acts:** weariness · **What happens:** feel, rest, lean · **To what, where:** longing, soft Oriental carpets, weeping willow

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dryad, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weariness), 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:pg27200:26:140
# text = She felt a longing to rest on the soft Oriental carpets within, or to lean against the weeping willow without by the clear water.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Oriental	Oriental	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	within	within	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	willow	willow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	without	without	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **feel** | past | weariness | a longing |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent longing=Theme |
| 2 | **rest** | to-infinitive | weariness *not said here* |  |  | the soft Oriental carpets |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on carpet=Location |
| 3 | **lean** | to-infinitive | weariness *not said here* |  |  | the weeping willow |  | without the clear water | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against willow=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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