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title: There lay the beautiful, blooming girl, dreaming of him whom she lov… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay the beautiful, blooming girl, dreaming of him whom she loved so, and who was now, she supposed, travelling far away over mountain and sea. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Elf of the Rose, sentence 38

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There lay the beautiful, blooming girl, dreaming of him whom she loved so, and who was now, she supposed, travelling far away over mountain and sea.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** lie, bloom, dream, love, be, suppose · **To what, where:** beautiful blooming girl, mountain

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Elf of the Rose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg27200:30:38
# text = There lay the beautiful, blooming girl, dreaming of him whom she loved so, and who was now, she supposed, travelling far away over mountain and sea.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the beautiful blooming girl |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girl=Theme |
| 2 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of elf | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | now *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **suppose** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **travel** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  | mountain and sea |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory |

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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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