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title: There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other rubbish not pleasant to see. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 14

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There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other rubbish not pleasant to see.

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**What happens:** lie, see · **To what, where:** fragments

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:4:14
# text = There lay fragments of plates, pieces of plaster, rags, old hats, and other rubbish not pleasant to see.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	plates	plate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	plaster	plaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	rags	rag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hats	hat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	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 |  | fragments of plates and pieces of plaster and rags and old hats |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fragment=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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